Subject: Education (Page 13)

Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.

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

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

With one or two exceptions, colleges expect their players of games to be reasonably literate.

(1898 – 1971) English classical scholar & academic

University: A modern school where football is taught.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

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

David Gerrold (1944 – ) science fiction author

College seems like a pretty expensive way to become an alcoholic.

(1974 – ) American comedian

If school had started at 4:00 in the afternoon, I'd be a college graduate today.

(1949 – ) American boxing champion

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

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

(1930 – ) American baseball player

In the school I went to, they asked a kid to prove the law of gravity and he threw the teacher out of the window.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

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

Before he died my father told me he never really walked to school without any shoes.

(1966 – 2011) American stand-up comedian

When I was at school I was great at history… oh wait, no I wasn't.

Canadian stand-up comedian, actor & writer

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

They put me in Special Ed because they thought I was slow, but I stayed in Special Ed for the ladies.

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

I think I’m really learning a lot from my creative writing classes; the entire experience is just indescribable.

Canadian stand-up comedian, actor & writer

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

Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

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

Canadian stand-up comedian, actor & writer

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