Going To Collage
On the road to higher education
Why some students didn't make the grade
QuotaBillsEducation is the apprenticeship of life. - Robert Willmott
I speak two languages, English and Body. - Mae West
Music is the universal language of mankind. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I go to school the youth to learn the future. - Robert Frost
Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it. - Christopher Morley
Education, the great mumbo jumbo and fraud of the age. - Malcolm Muggeridge
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. - George Santayana
Civilization is a race between education and catastrophe. - H G Wells
The English winter - ending in July, to recommence in August. - Lord Byron
Those who go to college and never get out are called professors. - George Givot
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. - Edmund Burke
God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board. - Mark Twain
If you're a good numbers person, you're a bad language person. - Frank Luntz
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. - Mark Twain
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. - Henry Kissinger
I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself. - Robin Williams
The English should give Ireland home rule - and reserve the motion picture rights. - Will Rogers
You get an education when you read the small print. You get a shock when you don't. - Buck Tracy
The funniest line in English is "Get it?" When you say that, everyone chortles. - Garrison Keillor
Officialese: A government language where you can understand the words, but not the sentences - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
It's not uncommon to see kids on the school bus reading books and doing homework on the bus. - Anthony Amero
Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. - Unknown
German is the most extravagantly ugly language - it sounds like someone using a sick bag on a 747. - Willy Rushton
Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife. - Kahlil Gibran
Although he tortures the English language, he has not yet succeeded in forcing it to reveal its meaning. - J B Morton
The names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful. - A.S. Byatt
Education can get you the only thing that really matters in today's world - an assigned parking space. - Gene Perret
Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years. - George Burns
If you find yourself saying, "But I can't speak English...", try adding the word "... yet". - Jane Revell
No bum that can't speak poifect English oughta stay in this country - oughta be de-exported the hell outta here! - Archie Bunker
If the English language made any sense, 'lackadaisical' would have something to do with a shortage of flowers. - Doug Larson
The great advantage of the sort of education I had was precisely that it made practically no mark upon those subjected to it. - Malcolm Muggeridge
'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another. - C S Lewis
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. - Oscar Wilde
Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. - Flannery O'Connor
You don't have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream. - Michael Dell
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
"I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence? - George Carlin
Mushroom: 1. A motel for quickies; 2. The place where they store the school food; 3. A room that has no sides, no walls, no doors and no ceilings. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
Historically the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family. - Stephen Covey