Education quotes

“- Poppy: Sometimes jail is the best thing to keep a man in shape.
- Sadie Maracle: Well, then I guess Silas could use a year or two, huh?”
Sandrine Holt - Poppy
Jennifer Podemski - Sadie Maracle

“Courtesans, my dear, are the most educated women in the world.”
Jacqueline Bisset - Paola Franco

“I can't write and I can't spell. That's the privilege of a first class education.”
Jude Law - Dickie Greenleaf

“Gentlemen, it's called education. It doesn't come off the side of a cigarette carton. it comes from our teachers, and more importantly our parents. It is the job of every parent to warn their children of all the dangers of the world, including cigarettes, so that one day when they get older they can choose for themselves.”
Aaron Eckhart - Nick Naylor

“- Mr. Smith: I hate it when parents hit their children.
- Woman in Museum: Let go of my arm!
- Mr. Smith: Not until you stop hitting your kid.
- Woman in Museum: I will discipline my child as I see fit.
- Mr. Smith: How would you like it if I spank you?”
Clive Owen - Smith
Laura de Carteret - Woman in Museum

“You know son, the only reason I'm hard on you is well because one day you'll wear the pants in your own family, people will depend on you, and how can they do that if your pants are all hanging of your behind? I mean have you thought about what you're 'gonna do if this whole rap thing don't work out?”
Cedric the Entertainer - Nate Johnson

“Being an only child, educated entirely by private tutors my whole life, I'm looking forward to interact with children for the first time.”
Ben Stiller - Tony Perkis Jr.

“I believe there is such a thing as a bad boy, bad clear through. It's gonna be my job to set you straight. That's right, to kill or cure. Kill or cure!”

Robert De Niro - Dwight

“Read it for yourself, and not for some damn class.”

Ice Cube - Fudge

“- Sammy: How was school today?
- Rudy: Stupid.”
Laura Linney - Sammy
Rory Culkin - Rudy

“Listen to me. I'm the boss, not Aunt Wendy. When it's your time to use the bathroom, you tell Aunt Wendy to get the fuck out of the bathroom! What are you, men or mice? She's hoggin' the bathroom - call me! Call me, and I'll throw her the fuck out!”

Harvey Keitel - LT

“I expect to lose half of you before I'm finished. I will use every means necessary, fair and unfair, to trip you up, to expose your weaknesses as a potential aviator.”

Louis Gossett Jr. - Sgt. Emil Foley

“How a young man is gonna take care of his financial responsibilities workin' at motherfuckin' Burger King? He ain't. He ain't, and please don't even start with the school shit. They ain't no education goin' on up in that motherfucker.”
Warren Beatty - Jay Bulworth

“- Mrs. Harris: Remember your manners. And don't forget to cross your ankles decently when you sit down. And don't sit in a draft, either. And don't slide down the banisters.
- Pauline Harris: Mama!
- Mrs. Harris: Well, you did at Nancy Pringle's wedding.
- Pauline Harris: Mama, that was 25 years ago! What do you think I am?”
Wendy Hiller - Mrs. Margaret Harris
Kate Lynch - Pauline Harris

- Prot: Why is a soap bubble round?
- Dr. Mark Powell: "Why is a soap bubble round?".
- Prot: You know, for an educated person, Mark, you repeat things quite a bit. Are you aware of that? A soap bubble is round because it is the most energy-efficient configuration. Similarly, on your planet I look like you. On K-PAX I look like a K-PAXian.
Kevin Spacey - Prot
Jeff Bridges - Dr. Mark Powell

“- Edmund Bertram: She does not think evil, but she speaks it. It grieves me to the soul.
- Fanny Price: The effect of education, perhaps.
- Edmund Bertram: Perhaps I can uneducate her.”
Jonny Lee Miller - Edmund Bertram
Frances O'Connor - Fanny Price

“- Ken: Colonel, the guy you bagged is Dr. Amir Teraki, Pakistani. PhD in Astrophysics, educated at Harvard.
- Lt. Col. Thomas Devoe: That's right, people. We educated half the world's terrorists.”
Randall Batinkoff - Ken
George Clooney - Lt. Col. Thomas Devoe

“- Dawn Weiner: Do you think about girls?
- Mark Weiner: Are you kidding? I want to get into a good school.”
Heather Matarazzo - Dawn Wiener
Matthew Faber - Mark Wiener

“I don't think you can reform those types. No - you just kill them.”

Clarence Williams III - Mr. Simms

“All the problems we're hearing about tonight, the unemployment, the drugs, the street crimes, those will always be the highest when they people have the least education.”
Joe Morton - Wynn

“Come on with the bullshit, man. You think another motherfucker know what you need to do? Ain't no purpose, dawg. It's money. We born to fucking die, man. In the meantime, get money. Fuck a book, man.”
DMX - Tommy 'Buns' Bundy

“Sit down, son. Go ahead. Try it on. Put your feet up. Go ahead. Let's get to know one another, shall we? Let's chat man to man. Now then, you're from the basement aren't you, and not blessed with much education?”

Paul Newman - Sidney J. Mussburger

“- Katie Sipriano: You guys are much too well-behaved. High school isn't what it used to be.
- Mike Donnelly: Yeah, it's mostly discipline. No matter how jazzed up and relevant I try to make the history, I'm still dealing with a roomfull of teenage libido.”
Maggie Renzi - Katie
Bruce MacDonald - Mike

“Obtuse? Oh, what a dreadfully big word for a college dropout.”
Nancy Travis - Prof. Joyce Reardon

“- Aretha Robinson: I've taken you as far as I can, baby. The teachers at St. Augustine know things I can't teach you. An' you need an education in this world.
- Young Ray Robinson: I don't want no education!
- Aretha Robinson: Shh! Don't say that!
- Young Ray Robinson: I don't! I wanna stay here with you!”
Sharon Warren - Aretha Robinson
C.J. Sanders - Young Ray Robinson