Back To School Quotes, Sayings about going back to school

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Learning is not compulsory neither is survival.
- Henry Ward Beecher

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It is hard to convince a high school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.
- Edgar Watson Howe

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Knowledge exists to be imparted.
- Emerson

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You learn something every day if you pay attention.
- Ray LeBlond

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Purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
- Malcolm Forbes

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In elementary school, many a true word is spoken in guess.
- Henny Youngman

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I care not what subject is taught, if only it be taught well.
- T.H.Huxley

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The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.
- Elbert Hubbard

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Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
- E.C. McKenzie

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The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.
- Mohammed

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You send your child to the schoolmaster, but ’tis the schoolboys who educate him.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.
- Mark Twain

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Schoolteachers are not fully appreciated by parents until it rains all day Saturday.
- E. C. McKenzie

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Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.
- A. Whitney Brown

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When I got out of high school they retired my jersey, but it was for hygiene and sanitary reasons.
- George Carlin

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Nothing grieves a child more than to study the wrong lesson and learn something he wasn’t suppose to.
- E.C. McKenzie

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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant

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The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.
- Mortimer Adler

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Sign on a High School bulletin board in Dallas: Free every Monday through Friday knowledge. Bring your own containers.
- E. C. McKenzie

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If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.
- Edgar Watson Howe

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The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.
- Kahlil Gibran