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

American basketball player

When reviewing your notes before an exam, the most important will be illegible.

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

When I went to school, sex education was mainly muttered warnings about the janitor.

(1972 – ) Scottish comedian

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

In the school I went to, they asked a kid to prove the law of gravity and he threw the teacher out of the window.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. – unfortunately, they don’t have a J.O.B.

(1928 – ) American R&B and rock & roll singer-songwriter

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

(1966 – 2011) American stand-up comedian

A diploma only proves that you know how to look up an answer.

David Gerrold (1944 – ) science fiction author

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

(1903 – 1966) English writer

My school was so tough the school newspaper had an obituary section.

(1927 – ) American comedian

If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised.

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet

When I was in college, we did mushrooms and acid… and did I mention acid?

(1956 – ) comedian, television host, social critic & political commentator

I never did very well in math – I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn’t meant my answers literally.

(1935 – ) columnist, journalist & novelist

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

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

Absolute Zero: The lowest grade attainable on a test.

Graduate School: The place where a young scholar goes off his Dad’s payroll – and on to his wife’s.

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

(1926 – ) newspaper columnist

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.

The philosophy exam was a piece of cake… which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.