Subject: Education » School (Page 3)

A statesman is any politician it’s considered safe to name a school after.

(1915 – 1977) columnist, writer & actor

Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.

(1941 – ) American singer & songwriter

Interviewer: Did you graduate from Auburn?
Charles: No, but I have a couple people working for me who did.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

If you are given an open-book exam, you will forget your book.

If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised.

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet

Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything one learned in school.

(1879 – 1955) German-born physicist

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

American football coach

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

(1949 – ) American boxing champion

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

Doctors bury their mistakes, but mine are still on scholarship.

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach

Never let your studies interfere with your education.

Hedda Hopper: How do you know so much about men?

West: Baby, I went to night school.

(1893 – 1980) actress, playwright, screenwriter & sex symbol

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

You might be a redneck if… your school fight song is Dueling Banjos.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

Lecture: A process by which the notes of the professor become the notes of the student, without passing through the minds of either.

I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached.

(1938 – ) journalist, columnist (Miss Manners)

I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top.

You never catch on until after the test.

Pocket calculator batteries that have lasted all semester will fail during the math final.

I quit school in the sixth grade because of pneumonia; not because I had it, but because I couldn’t spell it.


(1919 – 1990) American boxing champion