86 Movie Quotes about Education (Sound Clips) - page 5

Updated: Aug 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.

41 He taught me what fork to use, how to dress correctly, how to speak correctly. -Everything but how to think correctly.

Quote from Shockproof (1949)

42 You ain't doing these kids a favor by patronizing them. You're crippling them. You're crippling them for life.

Denzel Washington as Coach Herman Boone in Remember the Titans

43 Rocky, what did you think going into the last round? -I don't know. That I should have stayed in school or something.

Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa in Rocky II

44 She's all right. She's just young. -In some ways, she knows more than Einstein.

Burt Lancaster as Steve Thompson in Criss Cross (1949)

45 I would just like to say that physical education in this school is a disgrace.

Alicia Silverstone as Cher Horowitz in Clueless (1995)

46 You gotta be a magician to keep a kid's attention more than two minutes nowadays.

Quote from Foghorn Leghorn Shorts

47 When they tell you read page one, read three more and you'll find that the very next day when you are done the group is way behind.

Boris Karloff as Baron Boris von Frankenstein in Mad Monster Party? (1967)

48 How many of you all want to be like me one day? Okay, then. Obey your mother and fathers. Get your schoolwork. Don't drink. Don't smoke. Stay out of bad gangs. You hear me?

Muhammad Ali in The Greatest (1977)

49 I am a teacher, and as a teacher I know that when I have tried to teach the same lesson for a hundred times, and still the pupil does not understand, then I am forced to the conclusion that perhaps there's something wrong, either with the lesson, or with

James Mason as Timonides in The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)

50 Man has always learned from the past. After all, you can't learn history in reverse. It's confusing enough, for heaven's sakes.

Archimedes in The Sword in the Stone (1963)