Subject: Education » Learning

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

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

Canadian stand-up comedian, actor & writer

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


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

Genitals are a great distraction to scholarship.

(1932 – 2000) English author & academic

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

The only problem with learning by experience is that you get the test before the lesson.


I took a positive thinking course… it was shit.

(1973 – ) English writer & stand-up comedian

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

(1962 – ) American race car driver

Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything one learned in school.

(1879 – 1955) German-born physicist

I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.

(1882 – 1950) American attorney, politician, liberal activist & actor

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

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

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

(1910 – 1993) editor & novelist

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

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

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

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

Canadian stand-up comedian, actor & writer

If, while you are in school, there is a shortage of qualified personnel in a particular field, then by the time you graduate with the necessary qualifications, that field's employment is glutted.


Learn of the skillful; he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master.

(1706 – 1790) American statesman, author, scientist & inventor

You can learn many things from children… how much patience you have for instance.

(1908 – 1980) businessman, humorist

I never could make out what those damned dots meant.

(1911 – 1968) British politician & son of Prime Minister Winston Churchill