Here are some funny thoughts and anecdotes on the subject by famous and not so famous people:
• I have never let my schooling interfere with my education – Mark Twain
• My school days were the happiest days of my life; which should give you some indication of the misery I’ve endured over the past twenty-five years – Paul Merton
• I took a test in Existentialism. I left all the answers blank and got 100 – Woody Allen
• My school was so tough the school newspaper had an obituary section – Norm Crosby
• Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.
• I’m not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did – Yogi Berra
• In elementary school, in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file line from the smallest to the tallest. What is the logic? Do tall people burn slower? – Warren Hutcherson
• You learn something every day if you pay attention – Ray LeBlond
• In youth we learn; in age we understand – Von Ebner-Eschenbach
• 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 W. Howe