Subject: Education » School (Page 5)

Collegians Are Turning To Vegetables

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.

(1803 – 1882) essayist, poet, & philosopher

Don’t marry a man to reform him; that’s what reform schools are for.

(1893 – 1980) actress, playwright, screenwriter & sex symbol

Lecture: A process by which the notes of the professor become the notes of the student, without passing through the minds of either.

How can you tell if a Korean broke into your house?… your dog is missing, and your homework is done.

(1962 – ) American television host, actress & comedian

All I know is, as long as I led the Southeastern Conference in scoring, my grades would be fine.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

The more studying you did for the exam, the less sure you are as to which answer they want.

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

I made a 1,600 minus 800 minus 200 on the SAT, so I'm very intelligent when I speak.

American basketball player

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

Never let your studies interfere with your education.

 I want a school my football team can be proud of.

(1905 – 1998) botanist, author & University of Oklahoma president

Class schedules are designed so that every student will have time to waste between classes.

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

(1919 – 2000) Canadian prime minister & politician

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

(1935 – ) columnist, journalist & novelist

Teaching Latin to someone like me in high school was somewhat like trying to teach a pig to dance; it’s a waste of the teacher’s time and it irritates the pig.

U.S. Senator (1942 – 2015) U.S. senator (Tennessee) & actor

Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.

(1926 – ) newspaper columnist

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

Son, looks to me like you’re spending too much time on one subject.

college basketball coach

If you are given a take-home exam, you will forget where you live.

University: A college with a stadium seating more than sixty thousand.