Subject: Education (Page 8)

“The top half of the students are well-educated, the bottom half receive extra help, but the middle half we are leaving out.”

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

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

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

(1910 – 1993) editor & novelist

If you are truly serious about preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract – teach him to deduct.

(1950 – ) writer & humorist

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

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.

(1874 – 1963) American poet

We learn something every day, and lots of times it’s that what we learned the day before was wrong.

(1915 – 1977) columnist, writer & actor

Education is what you get from reading the small print. Experience is what you get from not reading it.

Trying to give my kids an education in Los Angeles is a nightmare with the guns, the gangs, the drugs – and I'm home schooling them.

American comedian & writer

My dog licked the crumbs out of my computer keyboard and earned an online college degree.

What we learn after we know it all, is what counts.

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

(1922 – 2007) American novelist

I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top.

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

(1956 – ) American entertainer & comedian

Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

If law school is so hard to get through… how come there are so many lawyers?

(1935 – ) columnist, journalist & novelist

Drugs have taught an entire generation of Americans the metric system.

(1947 – ) author, humorist & satirist

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

My recipe for bad grades: don't study.

(1964 – ) American stand-up comedian, actor & voice actor

If I drop out of school, where am I gonna find drugs?

Palestinian/American 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