Subject: Education (Page 5)

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

Canadian stand-up comedian, actor & writer

If you’re studying Geology, which is all facts, as soon as you get out of school you forget it all, but Philosophy you remember just enough to screw you up for the rest of your life.

(1945 – ) comedian, actor, writer, playwright & musician

I was thrown out of NYU my freshman year for cheating on my metaphysics final; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

In the first place God made idiots; that was for practice; then he made school boards.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

College: A four-year period when parents are permitted access to the telephone.

There is no direct relationship between the quality of an educational program and its cost.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

(1922 – 2007) American novelist

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

Thornton Melon: Boy, what a great-looking place. When I used to dream about going to college, this is the way I always pictured it.
Jason Melon: Wait a minute. When did you dream about going to college?
Melon: When I used to fall asleep in high school.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

He reminds me of the kid in fifth grade who reminded the teacher she forgot to give the homework.

writer & comedian

Those who make a distinction between education and entertainment don't know the first thing about either.

(1911 – 1980) Canadian educator, philosopher & scholar

What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bees and he told me about the butcher and my wife.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached.

(1938 – ) journalist, columnist (Miss Manners)

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

(1879 – 1955) German-born physicist

She was old too, when she went to school they didn’t have history.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

I am not young enough to know everything.

(1860 – 1937) Scottish author, dramatist (creator of Peter Pan)

[Coedness] is like a radical agenda forced on college students.

(1969 – ) U.S. Representative (Delaware)

I paid $120,000 for someone to tell me to read Jane Austen, and then I didn’t.

(1982 – ) American comedian, actor, writer & producer

College was like a four-year game show called “Do My Friends Hate Me or Do I Just Need to Go to Sleep?”

(1982 – ) American comedian, actor, writer & producer

It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic.

(1925 – ) columnist & journalist

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

Canadian stand-up comedian, actor & writer