Education Quotes

The best help we can offer the youth of today is to prepare them for tomorrow.

My mom said once that education was a privilege not afforded to everyone, but she was wrong--it wasn't a privilege. It was our right. We had the right to a future.

Alexandra Bracken

There is nothing so stupid as an educated man if you get off the thing that he was educated in.

Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.

Martin H. Fischer

If a man empties his purse into his head no one can take it from him.

Benjamin Franklin

Education is an admirable thing but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

There are a hundred thousand useless words in the English language but they come in handy in college football yells.

Anonymous

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.

Bumper sticker: My kid beat the heck out of the student of the month.

Anonymous

A kindergarten teacher is a woman who knows how to make little things count.

Anonymous

When asked to spell Mississippi the boy asked "The river or the state?"

Anonymous

Letter home from college boy: "There are 370 boys here - I wish there were 369."

Anonymous

I used to keep my college roommate from reading my personal mail by hiding it in her textbooks.

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.

I went to a high school that was so dangerous the school newspaper had an obituary column.

Rocky Ray

Do you think your boy will forget all he learned in college? "I hope so. He can't make a living drinking."

Do you know the difference between a kayak and a college student? A kayak tips.

Some drink from the fountain of knowledge - others just gargle.

Anonymous

Boy handing over his report card: Of course I seem stupid to my teachers . . . they're all college graduates.

Anonymous

Graduation Speech: You'll have to excuse me if I cry. I've been a little teary-eyed all week the sadness the joy . . . the fact that I'm off my parents' payroll.

Melissa Amernick

Schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications.

Education commences at the mother's knee and every word spoken within the hearsay of little children tends towards the formation of character.

What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?

Cicero

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Samuel L. Clemens

The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education but the means of education.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

College is the best time of your life. When else are your parents going to spend several thousand dollars a year just for you to go to a strange town and get drunk every night?

Those who go to college and never get out are called professors.

Anonymous

Let the schools teach the nobility of labour and the beauty of human service: but the superstitions of ages past? Never!

Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.

I find the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students athletics for the alumni and parking for the faculty.

All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

Whatever is good to know is difficult to learn.

Thus education forms the common mind Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.

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

He couldn't get into Harvard even if he had the dean's wife at gunpoint.

It's strange how few of the world's great problems are solved by people who remember their algebra.

Herbert Prochnow

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

My husband managed to cram four years of college into five.

One little six-year-old took home a note saying he need not come to school since he was "too stupid to learn." That boy was Thomas Edison.

Anonymous

Last words when sending our boy to college: "If there's anything you want call us and we'll show you how to live without it."

Anonymous

She's an honor student. She's always saying "Yes Your Honor. No Your Honor."

Anonymous

Bumper sticker: Driver carries no cash - he has a son in college.

Anonymous

Everyone is in awe of the lion tamer in a cage with half a dozen lions - everyone but a school bus driver.

Anonymous

It was going all wrong at my college interview until I nonchalantly asked "Do you need any large donations for new buildings?"

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."

There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly but then less is learned there so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.

Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.

William Butler Yeats

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do when it ought to be done whether you like it or not it is the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a man's training begins it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.

Some men are graduated from college cum laude some are graduated summa cum laude and some are graduated mirabile dictu.

William Howard Taft

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

We must reject that most dismal and fatuous notion that education is a preparation for life.

Soon learnt soon forgotten.

Anonymous

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.

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

Education n: that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

The Romans would never have had time to conquer the world if they had been obliged to learn Latin first of all.

The antithesis between a technical and a liberal education is fallacious. There can be no adequate technical education which is not liberal and no liberal education which is not technical.

Alfred North Whitehead

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

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.

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