Subject: Education » Learning

For every person wishing to teach, there are thirty not wanting to be taught.

(1898 – 1951) Scottish humorist

Dad taught me everything I know; unfortunately, he didn’t teach me everything he knows.

(1962 – ) American race car driver

What we learn after we know it all, is what counts.

Major: Area of study that no longer interests you.

If you’re studying Geology, which is all facts, as soon as you get out of school you forget it all, but Philosophy you remember just enough to screw you up for the rest of your life.

(1945 – ) comedian, actor, writer, playwright & musician

Don't try to teach men how to do anything in public; they can learn in private; in public they have to know.

(1953 – ) comedian, dancer & writer

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

(1771 – 1845) English writer & Anglican clergyman

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.

(1874 – 1963) American poet

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

Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

Experience is what you get when you don’t get what you wanted.

(1918 – 2002) advice columnist

Every child has a right to go to high school and end up with a third grade education.

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

Fleas can be taught nearly anything a congressman can.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around; but when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

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

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

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

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

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

(1771 – 1845) English writer & Anglican clergyman

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

Canadian stand-up comedian, actor & writer

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


It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snowblower or vacuum cleaner.