Subject: Education (Page 12)

A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success.

(1927 – ) magician & comedy writer
Appearance Clothing Education People

Interviewer: Auburn is a pretty good school; to graduate from there I suppose you really need to work hard and put forth maximum effort.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality
Basketball Education School Sports

I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades.

(1915 – 1987) American football player and coach
Education

The more trivial your research, the more people will read it and agree.
Corollary: The more vital your research, the less people will understand it.

Education Murphy’s Laws

A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.

(1902 – 1983) Australian novelist & short-story writer
Education Success

Graduation speeches were invented largely in the belief that college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.

(1948 – ) American cartoonist (Doonesbury)
Communication School Speech

Anatomy: A class that sounds vaguely risqué until you find out what it really involves.

Body Definitions Education School

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

(1975 – ) American stand-up comedian & television host
Education England Places School

A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.

Education Learning Proverbs

The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach
Education School Work

School teachers are not fully appreciated by parents until it rains all day Saturday.

Education Occupations Work

1. That which has not yet been taught directly can never be taught directly 2. If at first you don’t succeed, you will never succeed.

Education Murphy’s Laws Success

One in For Kids Drops Out of High School

Education Headlines

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

(1930 – ) American baseball player
Education Intelligence

Teaching wasn’t that bad – except for the kids.

comedian
Children Education

Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is 10, or something.

professional basketball player
Education Misspokements School

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

Education Murphy’s Laws School

An education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease; it made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.

(1948 – ) English novelist
Education

Fleas can be taught nearly anything a congressman can.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist
Education Learning Politicians

You might be a redneck if… you have a bumper sticker that says, "MY MOTHER'S AN HONOR STUDENT AT SOUTH LITTLE ROCK JR. HIGH."

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality
Education Mothers People Rednecks School

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist
Education School