Quotes About Education

I think you learn more if you're laughing at the same time.

British education is probably the best in the world, if you can survive it. If you can't there is nothing left for you but the diplomatic corps.

There are many non-intellectual countries; Australia is one of the few anti-intellectual ones.

I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.

Wikipedia is the first place I go when I'm looking for knowledge... or when I want to create some.

Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.

Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.

You know what GED stands for? Good Enough Diploma.

In our school you were searched for guns and knifes on the way in and if you didn't have any, they gave you some.

After all, when a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence.

Humor is anger that was sent to finishing school.

I won't say I was slow developer, but our teacher was quite pleased to have someone her own age in the class to talk to.

If she can't spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.

I did Scottish footballer of the year this year, attempted to do some comedy at that. Not the brightest people in the world. There were seven O-Levels in that room, and they were all mine.

Never buy your kid a Puzzle that you can't solve!

Why does everyone have to pretend to be stupid and not know long words?

As Governor of Texas, I have set high standards for our public schools, and I have met those standards.

Not a Harvard-type education, just a not-sticking-up-a-liquor-store-type education.

The school had a big problem with drugs... especially Class A.

My father said, "Okay, enough with the Jewish school." He put me into a public school and he said, "If you are the first one in your class, that means the school is bad." That was his humor.

Dulwich College takes me back after seventy years: My Mum must have written one hell of a sick note!

There's nothing sillier in the world than a teacher telling you don't do it after you already did it.

Community college is like a disco with books: "Here's ten dollars; let me get my learn on!"

The great thing about university is that they incline you to get up and do it, from the Classics to modern plays, to the humor that Monty Pythons made popular.