Subject: Education (Page 2)

You know there is a problem with the education system when you realize that out of the 3 R’s only one begins with an ‘R.’

(1953 – ) comedian, political commentator and television & radio personality

To learn that all I really need to know I learned in kindergarten, I needed to go to grad school.


College was like a four-year game show called “Do My Friends Hate Me or Do I Just Need to Go to Sleep?”

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

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

(1874 – 1936) English author & mystery novelist

Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison.

(1975 – ) American stand-up comedian & television host

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

American football coach

I took a positive thinking course… it was shit.

(1973 – ) English writer & stand-up comedian

I took a course in speed waiting… now I can wait an hour in only ten minutes.


You think when gym teachers are younger, they’re thinking, “You know, I want to teach, but I don’t want to read?”

(1966 – ) American stand-up comedian & actor

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

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

Canadian stand-up comedian, actor & writer

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

(1969 – ) American comedian & actor

A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.

(1880 – ?) American author

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top.

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

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

(1771 – 1845) English writer & Anglican clergyman

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

College seems like a pretty expensive way to become an alcoholic.

(1974 – ) American comedian

According to a new geographic literacy study 4 out of 10 American students couldn't find Iraq on a map; however 10 out of 10 Mexicans could find the U.S. without a map.

(1950 – ) comedian & television host