Subject: Education

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

(1926 – ) newspaper columnist

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

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

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

Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

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

(1972 – ) Scottish comedian

My recipe for bad grades: don't study.

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

Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.


A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education he may steal the whole railroad.

(1858 – 1919) 26th U.S. president

The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.

(1888 – 1964) American folklorist, writer & newspaper columnist

With one or two exceptions, colleges expect their players of games to be reasonably literate.

(1898 – 1971) English classical scholar & academic

Education with socialists: it’s like sex, all right so long as you don’t have to pay for it

English author, actor, humorist & playwright

If we really learned from our past mistakes, most of us would never get out of bed in the morning.

fictional mascot and cover boy of Mad, an American humor magazine

Teacher: A person who swore she would starve before teaching, and who has been doing both ever since.

[Caddyshack] was a six-million-dollar scholarship to film school.

(1944 – 2014) American actor, director & writer

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

Education: One of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.

Education is the process of moving from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty.

Can’t anything be done about calling these guys student athletes? … That’s like referring to Attila the Hun’s cavalry as “weekend warriors.”

(1925 – ) columnist & journalist

How is education going to make me smarter?

cartoon character in The Simpsons (Dan Castellaneta)

Fleas can be taught nearly anything a congressman can.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

The one course you must take to graduate will not be offered during your last semester.