Education quotes

“Look, Miss Snit, a girl does not get anywhere by acting intelligent! I mean, take a look at you and me. You chose books, I chose looks. I have a nice house, a wonderful husband and you are slaving away teaching snot-nosed children their ABCs.”
Rhea Perlman - Mrs. Wormwood

“You can either choose to leave here and not graduate, or you can stay and put up with me. It may not be a choice that you like, but you do have a choice.”
Michelle Pfeiffer - Louanne Johnson

“- Professor Henry Jones: Did I ever tell you to eat up, go to bed, wash your ears, do your homework? No, I respected your privacy and I taught you self-reliance.
- Indiana Jones: What you taught me, is that I was less important to you than people that have been dead for several hundered years and in other countries, and I learned it so well,...” (continue)(continue reading)
Sir Sean Connery - Professor Henry Jones
Harrison Ford - Indiana Jones

“- Matilda: I want to go to school.
- Mr. Wormwood: School? It's out of the question. Who would be here to sign for the packages? We can't leave valuable packages sitting out on the doorstep. Now go watch TV like a good kid.”
Mara Wilson - Matilda
Danny DeVito - Mr. Wormwood

“A man is supposed to take care of his family. You live in my house, feed your belly with my food, put your behind on my bed because you're my son. It's my duty to take care of you, I owe a responsibility to you, I ain't got to like you! Now, I gave everything I got to give you! I gave you your life! Me and your Mama worked out between us and...” (continue)(continue reading)

Denzel Washington - Troy Maxson

“In Finland, getting a university degree is the first thing that you expect your kids to do.”
Renny Harlin

“- Lady Markby: I can't help feeling that this disturbing new thing, this higher education of women, will deal a terrible blow to happy married life.
- Mrs. Laura Cheveley: The higher education of men is what I should like to see. Men need it so sadly.
- Lady Markby: They do, dear. But I'm afraid such a scheme would be quite unpractical. I don't...” (continue)(continue reading)
Lindsay Duncan - Lady Markby
Julianne Moore - Mrs. Laura Cheveley

“I tried to prove myself to you, but I know nothing of books, or alphabets, or sun, or moon or… All I know is Joseph loves Shannon.”
Tom Cruise - Joseph Donnelly

“I lost my job. Actually I didn't lose it. It lost me. I'm overeducated, underskilled - maybe it's the other way around. I forget - but I'm obsolete. I'm not economically viable. I can't even support my own kid.”
Michael Douglas - D-Fens

“- Will Hunting: The sad thing about a guy like you is, in 50 years you're gonna start doing some thinking on your own and you're going to come up with the fact that there are two certainties in life: one, don't do that, and two, you dropped 150 grand on a fucking education you could have got for a dollar fifty in late charges at the public...” (continue)(continue reading)

Matt Damon - Will Hunting
Scott William Winters - Clark

“- Regent Chairman: This is not a football vocational school. It's an institute for higher learning.
- Sam Winters: Yeah, but when was the last time 80,000 people showed up to watch a kid do a damn chemistry experiment?”
Dan Hannafin - Regent Chairman
James Caan - Sam Winters

“What are you looking at? You're laborers; you should be laboring. That's what you get for not having an education.”
William Atherton - Prof. Jerry Hathaway

“- Veronica Franco: The Latin for banana is arienna. Banana tree is pala. A woman's greatest, and most hard-won asset... is an education.
- Giulia De Lezze: Just because you can say it in Latin doesn't make it any less obscene.
- Veronica Franco: Just because you took a vow doesn't mean you know how to love.”

Catherine McCormack - Veronica Franco
Naomi Watts - Giulia De Lezze

“- Phil Davis: All right, they didn't go to college. They didn't go to Smith.
- Bob Wallace: Go to Smith? She couldn't even spell it.”
Danny Kaye - Phil Davis
Bing Crosby - Bob Wallace

“They rounded every pup up into that schoolhouse because they fancied that everyone should think and talk the same free-thinkin' way they do with no regard to station, custom, propriety. And that is why they will win. Because they believe everyone should live and think just like them. And we shall lose because we don't care one way or another how...” (continue)(continue reading)

Zach Grenier - Mr. Evans

“You can't make someone want education.”
Imelda Staunton - Margaret Campbell

“- Rocky Balboa: You know. I've been running up and down these steps for 20 years, and I never knew there was valuable pictures in this building.
- Rocky Balboa Jr.: Well you’re never to old to learn something new. You’re gonna love Picasso.
- Rocky Balboa: Yeah, yeah, well I love almost everybody.”
Sylvester Stallone - Rocky Balboa
Sage Stallone - Rocky Balboa Jr.

“I didn't go to college. I don't know anybody who did. Bunch of hippies and cesspool salesmen.”
Danny DeVito - Mr. Wormwood

“School spirit is for losers man. You're just like floating along on the conveyer belt of conformity... pep rallies, extra curricular activities, washing your hair... It's all just a trap, man.”
Danny Masterson - Steven Hyde

“Oh... and how is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home wine-making course and I forgot how to drive?”
Dan Castellaneta - Homer Simpson

“We educate. We nurture. We feed. And we lobby. Perhaps we’re here for more than just war with these bodies. We scream, and we shout, and we live by this anthem. But is power to the people really worth that ransom?”
Dominique Fishback - Deborah Johnson

“Joey, we didn’t struggle giving you an education so you could be a middle-aged man washing your underwear in my shop.”
Phylicia Rashad - Libba

“- Dr. Zempf: Has anybody instructed Lolita in the facts of life?
- Humbert Humbert: The facts?
- Dr. Zempf: The facts of life. You see, Lolita is a sweet, little child, but the onset of maturity seems to be giving her a certain amount of trouble.
- Humbert Humbert: I really don't think that this is a fit topic.
- Dr. Zempf: Well, Dr. Humbert...” (continue)(continue reading)
Peter Sellers - Dr. Zempf
James Mason - Prof. Humbert Humbert

“- Mrs. Hunt: I hope you're proud how you raised your daughters. My girls ain't gon' be bringing no bastards home to feed. I can tell you that!
- Ernestine Rivers: That's because won't nobody fuck 'em.”
Aunjanue Ellis - Mrs. Hunt
Teyonah Parris - Ernestine Rivers

“- Sarbojaya Ray: You'll educate the boy, give him his sacred thread, teach him to worship the gods. Durga will find a good husband. Two meals a day, new clothes twice a year - what more could we want?
- Harihar Ray: We'll have all that and more. My ancestors were writers, after all. They left a legacy that can't be ignored. Just wait two years....” (continue)(continue reading)
Karuna Bannerjee - Sarbojaya Ray
Kanu Bannerjee - Harihar Ray