Subject: Education » Learning (Page 2)

It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snowblower or vacuum cleaner.

A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.

(1889 – 1945) actor, author & humorist

Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.

Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra; in real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.

(1950 – ) writer & humorist

Don't try to teach men how to do anything in public; they can learn in private; in public they have to know.

(1953 – ) comedian, dancer & writer

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

If we keep on learning at this rate well soon know nothing at all.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

I paid $120,000 for someone to tell me to read Jane Austen, and then I didn’t.

(1982 – ) American comedian, actor, writer & producer

Every child has a right to go to high school and end up with a third grade education.

(1927 – 1997) Am. comedian & satirist notable for mock presidential campaign

For every person wishing to teach, there are thirty not wanting to be taught.

(1898 – 1951) Scottish humorist

I took a positive thinking course… it was shit.

(1973 – ) English writer & stand-up comedian

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

(1930 – 2013) American baseball manager

Dad taught me everything I know; unfortunately, he didn’t teach me everything he knows.

(1962 – ) American race car driver

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

Canadian stand-up comedian, actor & writer

The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin.

(1797 – 1856) German critic & poet

You're looking at a very proud Canadian who is very proud of the educational system in Canadia.

Canadian stand-up comedian, actor & writer

Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything one learned in school.

(1879 – 1955) German-born physicist

Genitals are a great distraction to scholarship.

(1932 – 2000) English author & academic

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

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

Fleas can be taught nearly anything a congressman can.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

If you’re studying Geology, which is all facts, as soon as you get out of school you forget it all, but Philosophy you remember just enough to screw you up for the rest of your life.

(1945 – ) comedian, actor, writer, playwright & musician