Graduation Swag

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater. - William Hazlitt

Don't try to teach a whole course in one lesson. - Kathryn Murray

I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know. - Bill Watterson

My joy in learning is partly that it enables me to teach. - Seneca

Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education. - Chuang-Tzu

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

When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble. - Mark Twain

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. - Edmund Burke

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. - Gail Godwin

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board. - Mark Twain

Education is the process of casting false pearls before real swine. - Irwin Edman

The older a man gets, the farther he had to walk to school as a boy. - Henry Brightman

Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig. - Robert A. Heinlein

If we were interested in making money, we wouldn’t have become teachers. - Robin Williams

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. - Jim Rohn

A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others. - Unknown

Life is good for only two things: discovering mathematics and teaching mathematics. - Simeon Poisson

If you want to get out of medicine the fullest enjoyment, be students all your lives. - David Riesman

You don't have to teach people to be funny, you only have to give them permission. - Harvey Mindess

You get an education when you read the small print. You get a shock when you don't. - Buck Tracy

Show me a Jewish boy who doesn't go to medical school and I'll show you a lawyer. - Milton Berle

A grandmother is a little bit parent, a little bit teacher, and a little bit best friend. - Unknown

The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don't tell you what to see. - Alexandra K. Trenfor

People are put into your life for reasons, for different reasons, and to teach you lessons. - Selena Gomez

What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education. - Jules Michelet

Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar. - Bradley Miller

Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners. - Unknown

If I were starting out again today, I would look for an opportunity that is going to teach me something. - Joe Segal

You learn how to be book smart in school, but you better not forget that you also need to be street smart. - Harvey Mackay

The only way we can ever teach a child to say "I'm sorry" is for him to hear it from our lips first. - Kevin Leman

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education. - Plato

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized. - Oscar Wilde

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. - William Arthur Ward

There are advantages to being President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret. - Ronald Reagan

Learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn. - Peter F Drucker

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

I like to have nice conversations with a man that teach me something, make me mad, make me curious. Then I find him attractive. - Renee Zellweger

A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason; to always be curious; and to fight tirelessly for something. - Paulo Coelho

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important. - Bill Gates

I remind myself every morning: nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening. - Larry King