Subject: Education » School (Page 4)

Before he died my father told me he never really walked to school without any shoes.

(1966 – 2011) American stand-up comedian

When I was in college, we did mushrooms and acid… and did I mention acid?

(1956 – ) comedian, television host, social critic & political commentator

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

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

American football coach

You might be a redneck if… you refer to the fifth grade as “my senior year.”

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

I made a 1,600 minus 800 minus 200 on the SAT, so I'm very intelligent when I speak.

American basketball player

If you're confident after you've just finished an exam, it's because you don't know enough to know better.

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

(1941 – ) American singer & songwriter

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

(1919 – 1991) American comedian & actor

We all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.

(1910 – 1993) editor & novelist

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Sex doesn’t have to be taught; it’s something most of us are born with.

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

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

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

David Gerrold (1944 – ) science fiction author

My school was so tough the school newspaper had an obituary section.

(1927 – ) American comedian

I had a terrible education… I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

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

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

Graduate school: The place where a young scholar goes off their parents’ payroll – and on to their spouse’s.

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

(1898 – 1971) English classical scholar & academic

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

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