Subject: Education (Page 11)

A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.

American football coach

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


I never could make out what those damned dots meant.

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

Education: A progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

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

(1874 – 1963) American poet

"We Hate Math" says 4 in 10 – A Majority of Americans

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

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

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

Teachers: United Mind Workers.

Absolute Zero: The lowest grade attainable on a test.

Ah, well… we live and learn, or, anyway, we live.

(1884 – 1949) American humorist & literary critic

Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

[Caddyshack] was a six-million-dollar scholarship to film school.

(1944 – 2014) American actor, director & writer

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

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

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

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

A lot of people think kids say the darnedest things, but so would you if you had no education.

(1974 – ) Russian-born American comedian, writer & filmmaker

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

Professor: A person whose job is to tell students how to solve the problems of life he avoided by becoming a professor.

I Have a Degree in Liberal Arts – Do You Want Fries With That?

In high school, I was the class comedian as opposed to the class clown; the difference is the class clown is the guy who drops his pants at the football game, the class comedian is the guy who talked him into it.

(1948 – ) comedian, actor, writer, producer & film director