86 Movie Quotes about Education (Sound Clips)

Last updated on: August 11, 2025

Memorable quotes about education, selected from famous or less known movies and other sources by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 If I were you, Mr. Goof, I'd seriously reevaluate the way you're raising your child before he ends up in the electric chair!

Quote from A Goofy Movie (1995)

2 We believe the seeds of genius are in all children. Therefore, we strive to develop their instincts, encourage their impulses.

Quote from A King in New York (1957)

3 Which school did I go to? How many grades did I get? It could be six. Could be none. It's not important. What is important is that I am, yes?

Spud in Trainspotting (1996)

4 I would not like to think that a person would tell someone he has a plethora, and find out that, that person has no idea what it means to have a plethora.

Alfonso Arau as El Guapo in Three Amigos

5 I don't believe in system, nor in method. Now, without system, without method, what's to teach?

Bruce Lee as Li Tsung in Longstreet

6 It's called process. You never want to stop learning, because if you do... -You die, right? -In many ways.

Lee Van Cleef as John Peter McAllister in The Master (1984)

7 Stay in school and use your brain. Be a doctor, be a lawyer, carry a leather briefcase. Forget about sports as a profession. Sports make you grunt and smell. See, be a thinker, not a stinker.

Carl Weathers as Apollo Creed in Rocky (1976)

8 Now, first of all, lad, we've got to get all of these medieval ideas out of your head. Clear the way for new ideas.

Merlin in The Sword in the Stone (1963)

9 Makers of men, creators of leaders. Be careful what kind of leaders you're producin' here.

Al Pacino as Lt. Col. Frank Slade in Scent of a Woman (1992)

10 Tell me, tell me, after you knock your pupil senseless, how do you expect him to remember the lesson?

Quote from The Jungle Book (1967)