Education Quote by Ambrose Bierce

Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.

— Ambrose Bierce

A modern school where football is taught.

— Ambrose Bierce

“The same boys who got detention in elementary school for beating the crap out of people are now rewarded for it. They call it…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

“Everything I know about morality and the obligations of men, I owe it to football (soccer).”

— Albert Camus

“Moral education, which ought never, in any circumstances, to be rational.”

— Aldous Huxley

“Unlike at the Academy or the Lyceum, women, some of them concubines and mistresses, as well as a few slaves, joined the conversation; further,…

— Epicurus

“Diogenes, the Greek philosopher who founded the Cynical school, lived in a barrel.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The classes were valuable, but the real education was the game.”

— Orson Scott Card

Football brings out the sociologist that lurks in some otherwise respectable citizens. They say football is a metaphor for America's sinfulness.

— Anonymous

Football is not a game but a religion, a metaphysical island of fundamental truth in a highly verbalized, disguised society, a throwback of 30,000…

— Arnold J. Mandell

“Football is the poetry of a motion.”

— Pubudu Lasal Dissanayake

“Regions remembered who had fought for whom, and they have not forgotten. Football grounds grew up out of the divided earth and have not…

— Phil Ball