94 Movie Quotes about Education (+ Sound Clips) - page 6

Updated: Mar 23, 2026

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

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

Alicia Silverstone as Cher Horowitz in Clueless (1995)

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

Mel Blanc as Foghorn Leghorn in Foghorn Leghorn Shorts

53 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)

54 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)

55 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)

56 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 From The Sword In The Stone in The Sword in the Stone (1963)

57 Knowledge and wisdom is the real power. -Right you are, Wart. So, stick to your schooling, boy.

Karl Swenson as Merlin; Arthur From The Sword In The Stone in The Sword in the Stone (1963)

58 I said to entertain him, not to educate him.

Glen Campbell as Chanticleer in Rock-a-Doodle

59 Quiet! We're indoctrinating! Ist you all indoctrinated? -Jawohl.

William Holden as J.J. Sefton in Stalag 17 (1953)

60 You've got a good education. You're very popular with all those friends of yours. You make a nice living. And everybody knows you're a good-looking kid. But, Peter, you're a putz.

Jack Warden as Saul Tuttle in While You Were Sleeping (1995)