Subject: Education (Page 3)

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

(1974 – ) American comedian

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

(1771 – 1845) English writer & Anglican clergyman

When reviewing your notes before an exam, the most important will be illegible.

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

(1879 – 1955) German-born physicist

For those eight years Clinton was the president, it was like we had that really cool substitute teacher.

(1977 – ) American comedian

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

(1930 – ) American baseball player

1. That which has not yet been taught directly can never be taught directly 2. If at first you don’t succeed, you will never succeed.

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

After I failed my second test, I grabbed my teacher by the front of the shirt and said “Are you ‘trying’ to keep this shit a secret?”

(1948 – ) stand-up comedian, actor, author & playwright

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 have never been jealous; not even when my dad finished fifth grade a year before I did.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

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

I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

I failed math so many times in school, I can’t even count.

Canadian stand-up comedian, actor & writer

Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

If you're confident after you've just finished an exam, it's because you don't know enough to know better.

When I went to college, my parents threw a going away party for me, according to the letter.

(1956 – ) American comedian

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

Comparing information and knowledge is like asking whether the fatness of a pig is more or less green than the designated hitter rule.

(1948 – ) American writer & mathematician

Being dead is one way to experience nothing, another is to attend some classes at my school.

(1933 – ) English author & cartoonist

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