Subject: Education (Page 11)

Collegians Are Turning To Vegetables

I went to medical school here at Columbia; I got my M.D.; and was practicing out in Colorado, where I decided to quit and do stand-up – and not just because of the lawsuits.

(1971 – ) American comedian, actor, television host & former physician

You know how to tell if the teacher is hung over?… movie day

(1970 – ) American actor, producer & stand up comedian

director I spent four years in college but I didn’t learn a thing; i was really my own fault… I had a double major in psychology and reverse psychology.

(1979 – ) American actor, writer, comedian & director

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

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

If you can't learn to do it well, you should learn to enjoy doing it badly.

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

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

You might be a redneck if… your during your senior year you and your mother had homeroom together.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

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

Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink.

(1925 – 2012) author, playwright, essayist & screenwriter

The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.

(1926 – ) newspaper columnist

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

Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income… which he then spends sending his son to college.

(1915 – 1977) columnist, writer & actor

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

(1972 – ) Scottish comedian

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

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

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

Every instructor assumes that you have nothing else to do except study for that instructor’s course.

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

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

Learn to be sincere, even if you have to fake it.

David Gerrold (1944 – ) science fiction author