Subject: Education (Page 4)

Generally speaking, you aren't learning much when your mouth is moving.

Anyone who has passed through the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.

(1778 – 1830) English writer, essayist, critic, grammarian & philosopher

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

Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

Never let your studies interfere with your education.

You live and learn… at any rate, you live.

(1952 – 2001) English writer, dramatist, & musician

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

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

Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.


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

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

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

Education is the process of moving from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty.

When I went to school, sex education was mainly muttered warnings about the janitor.

(1972 – ) Scottish comedian

How can you tell if a Korean broke into your house?… your dog is missing, and your homework is done.

(1962 – ) American television host, actress & comedian

I have never been jealous; not even when my dad finished fifth grade a year before I did.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

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

I quit school in the sixth grade because of pneumonia; not because I had it, but because I couldn’t spell it.


(1919 – 1990) American boxing champion

What men learn from history is that men do not learn from history.

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

Canadian stand-up comedian, actor & writer

Learn to be sincere, even if you have to fake it.

David Gerrold (1944 – ) science fiction author

A teacher is someone who talks in our sleep!

fictional mascot and cover boy of Mad, an American humor magazine