Subject: Education (Page 5)

In your toughest final – for the first time all year – the most distractingly attractive student in the class will sit next to you.

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.

You can learn many things from children… how much patience you have for instance.

(1908 – 1980) businessman, humorist

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

Interviewer: Auburn is a pretty good school; to graduate from there I suppose you really need to work hard and put forth maximum effort.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

Graduation speeches were invented largely in the belief that college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.

(1948 – ) American cartoonist (Doonesbury)

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men are so stupid? … it must be education that does it.

(1824 – 1895) French writer

If you are given an open-book exam, you will forget your book.

How is education going to make me smarter?

cartoon character in The Simpsons (Dan Castellaneta)

Fleas can be taught nearly anything a congressman can.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

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

(1956 – ) American entertainer & comedian

If we keep on learning at this rate well soon know nothing at all.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison.

(1903 – 1966) English writer

The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach

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.

American stand-up comedian

Every child has a right to go to high school and end up with a third grade education.

(1927 – 1997) Am. comedian & satirist notable for mock presidential campaign

I spent three of the happiest years of my life in the fifth grade.

(1895 – 1964) comedian (wife & partner of George Burns)

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

Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink.

(1925 – 2012) author, playwright, essayist & screenwriter

Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.

(1947 – ) U.S. vice president & politician

A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.

(1902 – 1983) Australian novelist & short-story writer