Subject: Education (Page 9)

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

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

If what you don't know can't hurt you, she's practically invulnerable.

Anatomy: A class that sounds vaguely risqué until you find out what it really involves.

Pocket calculator batteries that have lasted all semester will fail during the math final.

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

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

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

(1803 – 1869) French Romantic composer

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

Bachelor's degrees make pretty good placemats if you get 'em laminated.

(1980 – ) cartoonist

When I was at school I was great at history… oh wait, no I wasn't.

Canadian stand-up comedian, actor & writer

Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is 10, or something.

professional basketball player

Before he died my father told me he never really walked to school without any shoes.

(1966 – 2011) American stand-up comedian

How is education going to make me smarter?

cartoon character in The Simpsons (Dan Castellaneta)

Education: A progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

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

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

I think I’m really learning a lot from my creative writing classes; the entire experience is just indescribable.

Canadian stand-up comedian, actor & writer

Describing her first day back in grade school after a long absence, a teacher said, it was like trying to hold 35 corks under water at the same time.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

Philosophy is to the real world as masturbation is to sex.

(1818 – 1883) German philosopher, economist, sociologist & socialist

I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.

(1882 – 1950) American attorney, politician, liberal activist & actor

You think when gym teachers are younger, they’re thinking, “You know, I want to teach, but I don’t want to read?”

(1966 – ) American stand-up comedian & actor

As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in public schools.