School Speed Limit

Unsafe at any speed. - Ralph Nader

There is no education like adversity. - Benjamin Disraeli

Math research is more like a marathon. - Terence Tao

Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest. - Homer

Learning, undigested by thought, is labor lost. - Confucius

Play is our brain's favorite way of learning. - Diane Ackerman

Death and taxes are unsolved engineering problems. - Romana Machado

Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries. - David Hilbert

Real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone. - Albert Camus

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. - Will Durant

You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go. - Bill Watterson

Mathematics has given economics rigor, but alas, also mortis. - Robert Heilbroner

Those who go to college and never get out are called professors. - George Givot

College is a place to keep warm between high school and an early marriage. - George Gobel

I wanted to study to be a dental hygienist, marry a rich dentist, and hang it up. - Vicki Lawrence

It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't like it. - Finley P Dunne

Let us grant that the pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit. - Alfred Whitehead

A study of economics usually reveals that the best time to buy anything is last year. - Marty Allen

Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't. - Pete Seeger

I can get motivated seeing a kid at my son's school overcome a learning disability. - Jason Alexander

When I got outta High School I was driving a truck. I was just a poor boy from Memphis. - Elvis Presley

Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass; it's about learning to dance in the rain. - Vivian Greene

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind. - Jacques Martin Barzun

If I feel unhappy, I do mathematics to become happy. If I am happy, I do mathematics to keep happy. - Alfred Renyi

Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation. - Nicholas Negroponte

I learned law so well, the day I graduated I used the college, won the case, and got my tuition back. - Fred Allen

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. - Gen. Colin L. Powell

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps. - Christopher Columbus

The audience, upon learning that the real Buffalo Bill was present, gave several cheers between the acts. - Buffalo Bill

Mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics. - Charles Peirce

To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations. - Andre Gide

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant. - Plato

Only in peace do we have joy. Not by acquiring things, not by doing things, not by earning or learning, but by dedication. - Swami Satchidananda

People have to see that there is a high degree of complexity about belonging to a gang. It's a symptom, not a problem. - Greg Boyle

Learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do. - Umberto Eco

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

My son really has the spirit of Valentine's Day. When he was in college, he used to send his mother a heart-shaped box of laundry. - Milton Berle

In learning to know other things, and other minds, we become more intimately acquainted with ourselves, and are to ourselves better worth knowing. - Philip Gilbert Hamilton

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor. - Ernest Hemingway

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly. - Andre Gide