Subject: Education (Page 6)

I think TV is very educational; every time someone turns on a TV, I go in the other room and read.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

A diploma only proves that you know how to look up an answer.

David Gerrold (1944 – ) science fiction author

I think I’m really learning a lot from my creative writing classes; the entire experience is just indescribable.

Canadian stand-up comedian, actor & writer

[Caddyshack] was a six-million-dollar scholarship to film school.

(1944 – 2014) American actor, director & writer

Being dead is one way to experience nothing, another is to attend some classes at my school.

(1933 – ) English author & cartoonist

80% of the final exam will be based on the one lecture you missed and the one book you didn't read.

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

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

My father wanted me to have all the educational opportunities he never had… so he sent me to a girls school.

(1975 – ) American stand-up comedian & television host

I failed math so many times in school, I can’t even count.

Canadian stand-up comedian, actor & writer

With one or two exceptions, colleges expect their players of games to be reasonably literate.

(1898 – 1971) English classical scholar & academic

You live and learn… at any rate, you live.

(1952 – 2001) English writer, dramatist, & musician

Education with socialists: it’s like sex, all right so long as you don’t have to pay for it

English author, actor, humorist & playwright

The specialist learns more and more about less and less until, finally, he knows everything about nothing; whereas the generalist learns less and less about more and more until, finally, he knows nothing about everything.

Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink.

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

Graduate School: The place where a young scholar goes off his Dad’s payroll – and on to his wife’s.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

(1879 – 1955) German-born physicist

Drugs have taught an entire generation of Americans the metric system.

(1947 – ) author, humorist & satirist

The philosophy exam was a piece of cake… which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.

There’s always one teacher you had a crush on; for me, it’s my wife’s aerobics instructor.

comedian

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.

(1880 – ?) American author

He is so old… when he was in school they didn’t teach history!