Subject: Education

Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.

(1947 – ) U.S. vice president & politician

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 failed math so many times in school, I can’t even count.

Canadian stand-up comedian, actor & writer

A child can be taught not to do certain things, such as touch a hot stove, pull lamps off of tables, and wake Mommy before noon.

(1935 – 2014) American comedian, television personality, writer & director

Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

Men are like textbooks: you have to spend a lot of time between the covers to gain a small amount of satisfaction.

I am not young enough to know everything.

(1860 – 1937) Scottish author, dramatist (creator of Peter Pan)

In your toughest final – for the first time all year – the most distractingly attractive student in the class will sit next to you.

Our school color was manila.

comedian

I have never been jealous; not even when my dad finished fifth grade a year before I did.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

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

(1944 – 2014) American actor, director & writer

If you are given an open-book exam, you will forget your book.

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

My recipe for bad grades: don't study.

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

I was the only black in every class; hard to be absent.

(1969 – ) American comedian & actor

College seems like a pretty expensive way to become an alcoholic.

(1974 – ) American comedian

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

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

I took a physics course that was so hard I couldn't find the classroom.

comedian

Fleas can be taught nearly anything a congressman can.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

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

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

A teacher is someone who talks in our sleep!

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