Subject: Education (Page 3)

Football is a sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.

(1856 – 1915) writer, publisher, artist & philosopher

[Coedness] is like a radical agenda forced on college students.

(1969 – ) U.S. Representative (Delaware)

Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.

(1962 – ) writer & journalist

Pocket calculator batteries that have lasted all semester will fail during the math final.

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

As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in schools.

Money enables a man to get along without an education, and education enables him to get along without money.

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Before he died my father told me he never really walked to school without any shoes.

(1966 – 2011) American stand-up comedian

Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra; in real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.

(1950 – ) writer & humorist

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

(1922 – 2007) American novelist

Christ, seven years of college, down the drain.

(1949 – 1982) American comedian, actor & musician

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)

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

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

The one course you must take to graduate will not be offered during your last semester.

University: A college with a stadium seating more than sixty thousand.

Comparing information and knowledge is like asking whether the fatness of a pig is more or less green than the designated hitter rule.

(1948 – ) American writer & mathematician

Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low.

Every instructor assumes that you have nothing else to do except study for that instructor’s course.

My recipe for bad grades: don't study.

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

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

Can’t anything be done about calling these guys student athletes? … That’s like referring to Attila the Hun’s cavalry as “weekend warriors.”

(1925 – ) columnist & journalist