education quotes

Joe Cool always spends the first two weeks at college sailing his frisbee.
-- Snoopy

You may have heard that a dean is to faculty as a hydrant is to a dog.
-- Alfred Kahn

The sunlights differ, but there is only one darkness.
-- Ursula K. LeGuin, "The Dispossessed"

"I am not sure what this is, but an `F' would only dignify it."
-- English Professor

Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak
it to?
-- Clarence Darrow

Whenever anyone says, "theoretically," they really mean, "not really."
-- Dave Parnas

Where do I find the time for not reading so many books?
-- Karl Kraus

How do you explain school to a higher intelligence?
-- Elliot, "E.T."

`O' LEVEL COUNTER CULTURE
Timewarp allowed: 3 hours. Do not scrawl situationalist graffiti in the
margins or stub your rollups in the inkwells. Orange may be worn. Credit
will be given to candidates who self-actualise.

(1) Compare and contrast Pink Floyd with Black Sabbath and say why
neither has street credibility.
(2) "Even Buddha would have been hard pushed to reach Nirvana squatting
on a juggernaut route." Consider the dialectic of inner truth
and inner city.
(3) Discuss degree of hassle involved in paranoia about being sucked
into a black hole.
(4) "The Egomaniac's Liberation Front were a bunch of revisionist
ripoff merchants." Comment on this insult.
(5) Account for the lack of references to brown rice in Dylan's lyrics.
(6) "Castenada was a bit of a bozo." How far is this a fair summing
up of western dualism?
(7) Hermann Hesse was a Pisces. Discuss.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.
-- Christopher Morley

Practice is the best of all instructors.
-- Publilius

Do you think that illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup?

We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary
to know the origin of the universe; it is necessary to want to know.
Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition
to crave knowledge.
-- George Will

Campus sidewalks never exist as the straightest line between two points.
-- M. M. Johnston

Comparing information and knowledge is like asking whether the fatness
of a pig is more or less green than the designated hitter rule."
-- David Guaspari

Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education
is what you get when you read the fine print; experience is what you get
when you don't.
-- Pete Seeger

Education and religion are two things not regulated by supply and
demand. The less of either the people have, the less they want.
-- Charlotte Observer, 1897

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

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My
opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a bestseller
that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor

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