Quotes by American Authors - Page 185

If a man empties his purse into his head no one can take it from him.
Benjamin Franklin
Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.
Martin H. Fischer
There is nothing so stupid as an educated man if you get off the thing that he was educated in.
Will Rogers
The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education but the means of education.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
Samuel L. Clemens
Education commences at the mother's knee and every word spoken within the hearsay of little children tends towards the formation of character.
Hosea Ballou
Schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications.
Horace Mann
Do you think your boy will forget all he learned in college? "I hope so. He can't make a living drinking."
Larry Wilde
I went to a high school that was so dangerous the school newspaper had an obituary column.
Rocky Ray
We didn't feel so good when we took our son to college and saw a sign on the liquor store - Back to School Sale.
Brian Morgan
I used to keep my college roommate from reading my personal mail by hiding it in her textbooks.
Joan Welsh
Passing the SAT: My personal theory is that it has to do with how much money you send them in the mail. I think the amounts they tell you to send are actually just suggested minimum donations - if you get my drift.
Dave Barry
I won't say ours was a tough school but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like "What I'm Going to Be if I Grow Up."
Lenny Bruce
My husband managed to cram four years of college into five.
Judy Hampton
You could do anything in your room at college. You could smoke pot live in a coed dorm have a girl. But you couldn't have a . . . hot plate!
Jay Leno
It's strange how few of the world's great problems are solved by people who remember their algebra.
Herbert Prochnow
He couldn't get into Harvard even if he had the dean's wife at gunpoint.
Dave Barry
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance that imitation is suicide that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I find the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students athletics for the alumni and parking for the faculty.
Clark Kerr
Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.
B.F. Skinner
Whenever I'm asked what college I attended I'm tempted to reply Thornton Wilder'.
Garson Kanin
The Jews have always been students and their greatest study is themselves.
Albert Goldman
The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.
Jacques Barzun
Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't.
L. L. Hendren
John Milton called his school Christ College 'a stony-hearted stepmother'. The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education.
John W. Gardner
Education n: that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
Ambrose Bierce
And if the student finds that this is not to his taste well that is regrettable. Most regrettable. His taste should not be consulted it is being formed.
Flannery O'Connor
It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.
Carl Sagan
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Robert Frost
Some men are graduated from college cum laude some are graduated summa cum laude and some are graduated mirabile dictu.
William Howard Taft
It is a greater work to educate a child in the true and larger sense of the word than to rule a state.
William Ellery Channing
If you think education is expensive - try ignorance.
Derek Bok
You can lead a man up to the university but you can't make him think.
Finley Peter Dunne
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Henry Adams
It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us to escape not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.
T.S Eliot
No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest. For it is part of education to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.
T.S Eliot
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
George Santayana
Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.
James Baldwin
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
John Ciardi
There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
Walt Whitman
Surely the shortest commencement address in history - and for me one of the most memorable - was that of Dr. Harold E. Hyde President of New Hampshire's Plymouth State College. He reduced his message to the graduating class to these three ideals: 'Know yourself- Socrates. Control yourself- Cicero Give yourself - Christ.'
Walter T. Tatara
The freshmen bring a little knowledge in and the seniors take none out so it accumulates through the years.
A. Lawrence Lowell
The university is the last remaining platform for national dissent.
Leon Eisenberg
The things taught in schools are not an education but the means of an education.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.
Will Rogers
You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.
Marvin Minsky
Today's public education system is a failed monopoly: bureaucratic rigid and in unsteady control of dissatisfied captive markets.
David T. Kearns
The average PhD thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
J. Frank Dobie
One could get a first-class education from a shelf of books five feet long.
Charles William Eliot
I pay the School Master but 'tis the school boys that educate my son.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good teaching is l/4th preparation and 3/4ths theatre.
Gail Godwin
Creatures whose main spring is curiosity will enjoy the accumulating of fact far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.
Clarence Day
Arrogance pedantry and dogmatism are the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.
Henry S. Canby
A one-book man is either a slow learner or an ill-equipped teacher.
Robert Burke
A gentleman need not know Latin but he should at least have forgotten it.
Brander Matthews
Beware of little expenses a small leak will sink a great ship.
Benjamin Franklin
After order and liberty economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.... Economy is always a guarantee of peace.
Calvin Coolidge
When I demanded of my friend what viands he preferred He quoth: "A large cold bottle and a small hot bird!"
Eugene Field
I've never been drunk but often I've been overserved.
George Gobel
I've noticed the customers in health food stores. They are pale skinny people who usually look half dead. In a steak house you see robust ruddy people. They're dying of course but they look terrific.
Bill Cosby