Duke of Edinburgh Philip Quotes on Education

6 quotes

  1. Speaking to a driving instructor in Scotland, he asked: 'How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to get them through the test?'[1]

  2. On a visit to the new National Assembly for Wales in Cardiff, he told a group of deaf children standing next to a Jamaican steel drum band, 'Deaf? If you are near there, no wonder you are deaf.'[3][1]

  3. I'm one of those stupid bums who never went to university, and a fat lot of harm it's done me. (circa 1968)

  4. It is surprising the way things have changed since I first became chancellor of a university 50 years ago. (2003)

  5. It doesn't look like much work goes on at this University. (2005)

  6. 'Damn fool question!'

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