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Subject:
Education
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In your toughest final – for the first time all year – the most distractingly attractive student in the class will sit next to you.
Second Law of Final Exams
Education
Murphy’s Laws
School
Exams
During exams you are permitted to look down for inspiration and up in exasperation, but you are not permitted to look side to side for information.
Anonymous
Education
Exams
You can learn many things from children… how much patience you have for instance.
Franklin Jones
(1908 – 1980) businessman, humorist
Children
Education
Family
Learning
Patience
I Have a Degree in Liberal Arts – Do You Want Fries With That?
Bumper sticker
Education
Signs
College
Interviewer: Auburn is a pretty good school; to graduate from there I suppose you really need to work hard and put forth maximum effort.
Charles Barkley
(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality
Basketball
Education
School
Sports
Graduation speeches were invented largely in the belief that college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.
Garry Trudeau
(1948 – ) American cartoonist (Doonesbury)
Communication
School
Speech
Graduation speeches
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men are so stupid? … it must be education that does it.
Alexandre Dumas
(1824 – 1895) French writer
Education
Intelligence
If you are given an open-book exam, you will forget your book.
Fifth Law of Applied Terror
Education
Murphy’s Laws
School
Exams
How is education going to make me smarter?
Homer Simpson
cartoon character in
The Simpsons
(Dan Castellaneta)
Education
TV/Movie Quotes
Fleas can be taught nearly anything a congressman can.
Mark Twain
Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist
Education
Learning
Politicians
Fleas
I hated
Geography
… because it’s just like
History
… except without people and dates.
Judy Tenuta
(1956 – ) American entertainer & comedian
Education
History
School
Time
If we keep on learning at this rate well soon know nothing at all.
Mark Twain
Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist
Education
Learning
Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison.
Evelyn Waugh
(1903 – 1966) English writer
Education
England
Places
School
The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.
Abe Lemons
(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach
Education
School
Work
Retirement
The hardest thing to do at a community college is cheat on a test because the only people you can cheat off of also go to a community college.
Tommy Johnagin
American stand-up comedian
Education
School
Cheating
Community college
Exams
Every child has a right to go to high school and end up with a third grade education.
Pat Paulsen
(1927 – 1997) Am. comedian & satirist notable for mock presidential campaign
Children
Education
Learning
School
I spent three of the happiest years of my life in the fifth grade.
Gracie Allen
(1895 – 1964) comedian (wife & partner of George Burns)
Education
School
TV/Movie Quotes
As Gracie Devore in “Six of a Kind”
If you're confident after you've just finished an exam, it's because you don't know enough to know better.
Weisman's Law of Examinations
Education
Intelligence
Murphy’s Laws
School
Exams
Jay Weisman
Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink.
Gore Vidal
(1925 – 2012) author, playwright, essayist & screenwriter
Education
Occupations
Novelists
Teaching
Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.
Dan Quayle
(1947 – ) U.S. vice president & politician
Education
Misspokements
Occupations
Teachers
A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.
Christina Stead
(1902 – 1983) Australian novelist & short-story writer
Education
Success
Luck
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