Subject: Education (Page 7)

I had just received my degree in Calcium Anthropology… the study of milkmen.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

When I was recruited at Auburn, they took me to a strip joint; when I saw those titties on Buffy, I knew that Auburn met my academic requirements.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

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

David Gerrold (1944 – ) science fiction author

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

Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student; at least they can find Kuwait.

(1952 – ) American writer & comedian

Education: What you have left over when you subtract what you’ve forgotten from what you learned.

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.

It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snowblower or vacuum cleaner.

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

When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.

(1895 – 1964) comedian (wife & partner of George Burns)

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

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

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

(1929 – 1994) English playwright, screenwriter & actor

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

(1922 – 2007) American novelist

Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink.

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

[Coedness] is like a radical agenda forced on college students.

(1969 – ) U.S. Representative (Delaware)

I never graduated from Iowa. I was only there for two terms – Truman's and Eisenhower's.

(1935 – 2012) American football player, sports announcer & actor

I hated Geography… because it’s just like History… except without people and dates.

(1956 – ) American entertainer & comedian

They say you never forget your first school teacher, I had mine like 4 years in a row… I was dating her by the time I got out of that joint.

American actor & stand-up 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 can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.

(1809 – 1865) 16th U.S. president