Funny Quotes About Education

"It's an insane tragedy that 700,000 people get a diploma each year and can't read the damned diploma."
        —William E. Brock

"Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live."
        —Peter Cochrane

"The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion-these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness."
        —Jerome Seymour Bruner

"Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language."
        —H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide."
        —Buddha

"Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait."
        —A. Whitney Brown

Anyone who has passed through the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
        — William Hazlitt

We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.
        — Timothy Leary

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
        — Theodore Roosevelt

The three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty.
        — Robert M. Hutchins