Subject: Education (Page 6)

The one course you must take to graduate will not be offered during your last semester.

If you were forced to read the book in high school, you’ll probably hate the movie too.

When reviewing your notes before an exam, the most important will be illegible.

If you are truly serious about preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract – teach him to deduct.

(1950 – ) writer & humorist

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

comedian

He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop.

(1771 – 1845) English writer & Anglican clergyman

Going back to school was the best thing I ever done.

Learn of the skillful; he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master.

(1706 – 1790) American statesman, author, scientist & inventor

Thornton Melon: Boy, what a great-looking place. When I used to dream about going to college, this is the way I always pictured it.
Jason Melon: Wait a minute. When did you dream about going to college?
Melon: When I used to fall asleep in high school.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education he may steal the whole railroad.

(1858 – 1919) 26th U.S. president

The schoolteacher is certainly underpaid as a child-minder, but ludicrously overpaid as an educator.

(1929 – 1994) English playwright, screenwriter & actor

A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.

American basketball coach & executive

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

(1879 – 1955) German-born physicist

I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner.

(1923 – 1966) stand-up comedian, writer, social critic & satirist

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

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

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

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

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach

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

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

(1803 – 1869) French Romantic composer

Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.


A prerequisite for a desired course will be offered only during the following semester.