Monday, May 03, 2010

Teacher Appreciation Week Specials

Special post for Teacher's Day and Teacher Appreciation Week 2010.
Remember, it is all for fun and laughter, enjoy :D





"You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think."
— Elbert Hubbard
"Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them."
— George Lorimer
"I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy next to me."
— Woody Allen
"Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education."
— Mark Twain
"Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated."
— G. B. Trudeau
"I noticed that almost everyone I went to college with has worked at something other than the subject they majored in. I guess that's one of the reasons for campus unrest."
— Kent McCord
"I'm a philosophy major. That means I can think deep thoughts about being unemployed."
— Bruce Lee
"Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates."
— A. Lawrence Lowell
"Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income—which he then spends sending his son to college."
— Bill Vaughn
"Definition of a College professor: someone who talks in other people's sleep."
— W. H. Auden
"Yes I'm a bum. But I'm a Harvard bum."
— Simon Wilder, character in With Honors
"If a man is a fool, you don't train him out of being a fool by sending him to university. You merely turn him into a trained fool, ten times more dangerous."
— Desmond Bagley



If all the students who slept through lectures were laid end to end, they’d all be a lot more comfortable.  
I have never let schooling interfere with my education.  
Education is what remains when one has forgotten everything he learned in school.  
College is a refuge from hasty judgment.  
Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.  
If you feel that you have both feet planted on solid ground, then the university has failed you.  
The chief value in going to college is that it’s the only way to learn it really doesn’t matter.  
The freshmen bring a little knowledge in and the seniors take none out, so it accumulates through the years.  
You can lead a boy to college, but you can’t make him think.  
Definition of a College professor: someone who talks in other people’s sleep.  
College athletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil.  
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.  
An encyclopedia is a system for collecting dust in alphabetical order.  
He who can do – he, who cannot, teaches.  

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