In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

Education aims to give you a boost up the ladder of knowledge. Too often, it just gives you a cramp on one of its rungs.

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what…

My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.

If a man is a fool, you don't train him out of being a fool by sending him to university. You merely turn him into a trained fool, ten times more dangerous.