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Education Quotes by Mark Twain

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A classroom wall plastered with just two dates—1492 and July 4—illustrates how schools can leave out most of history. Twain jokes that school itself is the problem, and that asking questions keeps you from staying a fool forever. He also points out that schools both hand out and hide valuable knowledge.

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Don't let schooling interfere with your education.

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The problem with education is school.

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I never let schooling interfere with my education.

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School gets in the way of my learning.

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One must travel, to learn.

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God created war so that Americans would learn geography.

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“I never let my schoolin' interfere with my learnin' "___Mark Twain”

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“I never let school get in the way of my education!”

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Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

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Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

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It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.

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The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.

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Out of the public schools comes the greatness of the nation.

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Education that consists in learning things and not the meaning of them is feeding upon the husks and not the corn

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If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than…

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There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad…

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I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who…

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Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened…

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“Ah, heavens and earth, friend, if you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have…

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College is a place where a professor's lecture notes go straight to the students' lecture notes, without passing through the brains of…

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You have heretofore found out, by my teachings, that man is a fool; you are now aware that woman is a damned…

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I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre. If he could not approve of the massacre,…

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“A Christian mother's first duty is to soil her child's mind, and she does not neglect it. Her lad grows up to…

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Inherently, each one of us has the substance within to achieve whatever our goals and dreams define. What is different for each…

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“Inherently, each one of us has the substance within to achieve whatever our goals and dreams define. What is missing from each…

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“I had been to school most all the time, and could spell, and read, and write just a little, and could say…

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All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot…

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Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Training is everything.…

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I am living a new and exalted life of late. It steeps me in a sacred rapture to see a portrait develop…

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“What would the new teacher, representing France, teach us? Railroading? No. France knows nothing valuable about railroading. Steamshipping? No. France has no…

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My philological studies have satisfied me that a gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French…

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“Eseldorf was a paradise for us boys. We were not overmuch pestered with schooling. Mainly we were trained to be good Christians;…

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Some authorities hold that the young ought not to lie at all. That, of course, is putting it rather stronger than necessary;…

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I never could do anything with figures, never had any talent for mathematics, never accomplished anything in my efforts at that rugged…

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“It ain't no use to try to learn you nothing, Huck.”

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The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come, not of book teaching, but of experience.

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I do not allow my schooling to interfere with my education

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Education is what you must acquire without any interference from your schooling.

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Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.

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He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

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There is nothing training can't cannot do. Nothing is above its reach.

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Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already.

Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either…

If we could imagine such a man, that is a man who could invent the fly and send him out on his mission and…

You perceive, now, that these things are all impossible except in a dream. You perceive that they are pure and puerile insanities, the silly…

Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.