Subject: Education

An education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease; it made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.

(1948 – ) English novelist

Education: A technique employed to open minds so that they may go from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty.

School teachers are not fully appreciated by parents until it rains all day Saturday.

If you can't learn to do it well, you should learn to enjoy doing it badly.

80% of the final exam will be based on the one lecture you missed and the one book you didn't read.

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic.

(1925 – ) columnist & journalist

Philosophy is to the real world as masturbation is to sex.

(1818 – 1883) German philosopher, economist, sociologist & socialist

In high school, I was the class comedian as opposed to the class clown; the difference is the class clown is the guy who drops his pants at the football game, the class comedian is the guy who talked him into it.

(1948 – ) comedian, actor, writer, producer & film director

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

(1706 – 1790) American statesman, author, scientist & inventor

The schoolteacher is certainly underpaid as a child-minder, but ludicrously overpaid as an educator.

(1929 – 1994) English playwright, screenwriter & actor

Teaching wasn’t that bad – except for the kids.

comedian

A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.

American football coach

“The top half of the students are well-educated, the bottom half receive extra help, but the middle half we are leaving out.”

When I was in college, we did mushrooms and acid… and did I mention acid?

(1956 – ) comedian, television host, social critic & political commentator

A diploma only proves that you know how to look up an answer.

David Gerrold (1944 – ) science fiction author

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

I was the only black in every class; hard to be absent.

(1969 – ) American comedian & actor

You might be a redneck if… your during your senior year you and your mother had homeroom together.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

Teacher: A person who swore she would starve before teaching, and who has been doing both ever since.

You might be a redneck if… your dad walks you to school because you’re in the same grade.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality