Subject: Education » School (Page 3)

Interviewer: Auburn is a pretty good school; to graduate from there I suppose you really need to work hard and put forth maximum effort.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

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

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

Graduation speeches were invented largely in the belief that college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.

(1919 – 2000) Canadian prime minister & politician

Every child has a right to go to high school and end up with a third grade education.

(1927 – 1997) Am. comedian & satirist notable for mock presidential campaign

If law school is so hard to get through… how come there are so many lawyers?

(1935 – ) columnist, journalist & novelist

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

American football coach

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

Absolute Zero: The lowest grade attainable on a test.

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

(1915 – 1977) columnist, writer & actor

College is a place to keep warm between high school and an early marriage.

(1919 – 1991) American comedian & actor

Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison.

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

All I know is, as long as I led the Southeastern Conference in scoring, my grades would be fine.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

How can you tell if a Korean broke into your house?… your dog is missing, and your homework is done.

(1962 – ) American television host, actress & comedian

Graduation speeches were invented largely in the belief that college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.

(1948 – ) American cartoonist (Doonesbury)

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

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

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.

(1803 – 1882) essayist, poet, & philosopher

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

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

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