Subject: Education (Page 12)

I Have a Degree in Liberal Arts – Do You Want Fries With That?

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

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.

(1874 – 1963) American poet

We’re going to have the best-educated American people in the world.

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

If school had started at 4:00 in the afternoon, I'd be a college graduate today.

(1949 – ) American boxing champion

Adolescence is the time in life when a youngster is well informed about anything he doesn’t have to study.

A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. – unfortunately, they don’t have a J.O.B.

(1928 – ) American R&B and rock & roll singer-songwriter

Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

Describing her first day back in grade school after a long absence, a teacher said, it was like trying to hold 35 corks under water at the same time.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

Those who make a distinction between education and entertainment don't know the first thing about either.

(1911 – 1980) Canadian educator, philosopher & scholar

Class schedules are designed so that every student will have time to waste between classes.

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

Teacher: A disillusioned woman who used to think she liked children.

Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low.

I never did very well in math – I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn’t meant my answers literally.

(1935 – ) columnist, journalist & novelist

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

The only problem with learning by experience is that you get the test before the lesson.


Trying to give my kids an education in Los Angeles is a nightmare with the guns, the gangs, the drugs – and I'm home schooling them.

American comedian & writer

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

(1874 – 1936) English author & mystery novelist

I stopped telling people I didn't attend college when it suddenly dawned on me that no one was particularly surprised.

(1932 – ) American political satirist & comedian