Subject: Education (Page 4)

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


Football is a sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.

(1856 – 1915) writer, publisher, artist & philosopher

You might be a redneck if… your during your senior year you and your mother had homeroom together.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

I started wearing glasses, and people started saying I looked smart and I'm like, huh?… I didn't go to Harvard; I went to Lens Crafters.

comedian

If we really learned from our past mistakes, most of us would never get out of bed in the morning.

fictional mascot and cover boy of Mad, an American humor magazine

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

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

(1910 – 1993) editor & novelist

He’s like the first guy, like, from my reading level, you know — the first guy, like, from my math class to finally go out and do something!

(1968 – ) American stand-up comedian

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

Son, looks to me like you’re spending too much time on one subject.

college basketball coach

I hated Geography… because it’s just like History… except without people and dates.

(1956 – ) American entertainer & comedian

I made a 1,600 minus 800 minus 200 on the SAT, so I'm very intelligent when I speak.

American basketball player

Something very sad about the fact that I haven’t read Moby Dick, but I have read the Kindergarten Cop Wikipedia page.

(1983 – ) American comedian & actor

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

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

(1974 – ) American comedian

Every instructor assumes that you have nothing else to do except study for that instructor’s course.

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.


You may be a redneck if you have spent more on your pickup truck than on your education.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

 This job is better than I could get if I used my college degree, which, at this point, I can't remember what it was in.

professional football player

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

(1918 – 2002) advice columnist