Subject: Education » Learning

The specialist learns more and more about less and less until, finally, he knows everything about nothing; whereas the generalist learns less and less about more and more until, finally, he knows nothing about everything.

Education Learning Murphy’s Laws

The only problem with learning by experience is that you get the test before the lesson.


Education Learning

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist
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If, while you are in school, there is a shortage of qualified personnel in a particular field, then by the time you graduate with the necessary qualifications, that field's employment is glutted.


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I think I’m really learning a lot from my creative writing classes; the entire experience is just indescribable.

Canadian stand-up comedian, actor & writer
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I took a course in speed waiting… now I can wait an hour in only ten minutes.


Learning Time

Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything one learned in school.

(1879 – 1955) German-born physicist
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What we learn after we know it all, is what counts.

Education Learning Murphy’s Laws

He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop.

(1771 – 1845) English writer & Anglican clergyman
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Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.

(1874 – 1963) American poet
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You're looking at a very proud Canadian who is very proud of the educational system in Canadia.

Canadian stand-up comedian, actor & writer
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When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around; but when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist
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I paid $120,000 for someone to tell me to read Jane Austen, and then I didn’t.

(1982 – ) American comedian, actor, writer & producer
Education Learning

A child can be taught not to do certain things, such as touch a hot stove, pull lamps off of tables, and wake Mommy before noon.

(1935 – 2014) American comedian, television personality, writer & director
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We all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.

(1910 – 1993) editor & novelist
Education Learning Life School

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

Education Learning Murphy’s Laws Success

You're looking at a very proud Canadian who is very proud of the educational system in Canadia…

Canadian stand-up comedian, actor & writer
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Experience is what you get when you don’t get what you wanted.

(1918 – 2002) advice columnist
Education Learning

The best classroom of all times was about two car lengths behind Juan Manuel Fangio.

(1929 – ) English race car driver
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If you’re studying Geology, which is all facts, as soon as you get out of school you forget it all, but Philosophy you remember just enough to screw you up for the rest of your life.

(1945 – ) comedian, actor, writer, playwright & musician
Education Learning

Major: Area of study that no longer interests you.

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