Subject: Education » School (Page 4)

Class schedules are designed so that every student will have time to waste between classes.

In school, every period ends with a bell… every sentence ends with a period… every crime ends with a sentence.


I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

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

A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. – unfortunately, they don’t have a J.O.B.

(1928 – ) American R&B and rock & roll singer-songwriter

Lecture: A process by which the notes of the professor become the notes of the student, without passing through the minds of either.

1. The more general the title of a course, the less you will learn from it. 2. The more specific a title is, the less you will be able to apply it.

In public school my daughter was voted most likely to conceive.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

If you are given a take-home exam, you will forget where you live.

Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.

(1926 – ) newspaper columnist

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.

(1803 – 1882) essayist, poet, & philosopher

We all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.

(1910 – 1993) editor & novelist

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

David Gerrold (1944 – ) science fiction author

In our school you were searched for guns and knifes on the way in and if you didn’t have any, they gave you some.

(1956 – ) American comedian

When I was recruited at Auburn, they took me to a strip joint; when I saw those titties on Buffy, I knew that Auburn met my academic requirements.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

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

American basketball player

Graduation speeches were invented largely in the belief that college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.

(1919 – 2000) Canadian prime minister & politician

I went to medical school here at Columbia; I got my M.D.; and was practicing out in Colorado, where I decided to quit and do stand-up – and not just because of the lawsuits.

(1971 – ) American comedian, actor, television host & former physician

You might be a redneck if… you have a bumper sticker that says, "MY MOTHER'S AN HONOR STUDENT AT SOUTH LITTLE ROCK JR. HIGH."

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income… which he then spends sending his son to college.

(1915 – 1977) columnist, writer & actor

The philosophy exam was a piece of cake… which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.