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“Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.”
Albert Einstein
“The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.”
Tom Bodett
“I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.”
Neil Gaiman
“True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.”
Kurt Vonnegut
“Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework”
Bill Cosby
“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?”
Warren Hutcherson
“I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.”
Woody Allen
“School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence.”
Henry Louis Mencken
“God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board”
Mark Twain
“The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.”
Abraham Lincoln