"If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers."
"My school days were the happiest days of my life; which should give you some indication of the misery I've endured over the past twenty-five years."
"In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards."
"We all learn by experience but some of us have to go to summer school."
"But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret."
"In grade school I was smart, but I didn't have any friends. In high school, I quit being smart and started having friends."
"My mother tells this story that when I first went to school, I thought I was going to help the teachers. I didn't realize I was going to get educated."
"Remember in elementary school you were told that in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file from smallest to tallest? What is the logic in that? What, do tall people burn slower?"
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
"Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality."
"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."
"True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country."
"I never did very well in math—I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally."
"As long as teachers give tests, there will always be prayer in schools."
"My education was dismal. I went to a series of schools for mentally disturbed teachers."
"We all learn by experience but some of us have to go to summer school."
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