Subject: Education (Page 13)

Thornton Melon: Boy, what a great-looking place. When I used to dream about going to college, this is the way I always pictured it.
Jason Melon: Wait a minute. When did you dream about going to college?
Melon: When I used to fall asleep in high school.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

If you think that education is expensive, try ignorance.

(1930 – ) American lawyer & educator

Sex doesn’t have to be taught; it’s something most of us are born with.

(1927 – 1997) Am. comedian & satirist notable for mock presidential campaign

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

Canadian stand-up comedian, actor & writer

You may be a redneck if you have spent more on your pickup truck than on your education.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

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

David Gerrold (1944 – ) science fiction author

College: A four-year period when parents are permitted access to the telephone.

I made a 1,600 minus 800 minus 200 on the SAT, so I'm very intelligent when I speak.

American basketball player

When I was at school I was great at history… oh wait, no I wasn't.

Canadian stand-up comedian, actor & writer

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

I am not young enough to know everything.

(1860 – 1937) Scottish author, dramatist (creator of Peter Pan)

Being dead is one way to experience nothing, another is to attend some classes at my school.

(1933 – ) English author & cartoonist

He’s like the first guy, like, from my reading level, you know — the first guy, like, from my math class to finally go out and do something!

(1968 – ) American stand-up comedian

For those eight years Clinton was the president, it was like we had that really cool substitute teacher.

(1977 – ) American comedian

My recipe for bad grades: don't study.

(1964 – ) American stand-up comedian, actor & voice actor

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

When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.

(1895 – 1964) comedian (wife & partner of George Burns)

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education he may steal the whole railroad.

(1858 – 1919) 26th U.S. president

My school was so tough the school newspaper had an obituary section.

(1927 – ) American comedian