Mark Twain Quotes About Education
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A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
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I try never to let my schooling get in the way of my education.
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Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.
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Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
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Out of the public schools comes the greatness of the nation.
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I've never let my school interfere with my education.
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Life is short, Break the Rules. Forgive quickly, Kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably And never regret ANYTHING That makes you smile.
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The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
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A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.
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Don't let schooling interfere with your education.
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Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail.
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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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There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship.
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When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble.
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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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Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.
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Man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.
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Education is what you must acquire without any interference from your schooling.
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God created war so that Americans would learn geography.
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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; still, while I cannot go quite so far as that, I do maintain, and I believe I am right, that the young ought to be temperate in the use of this great art until practice and experience shall give them that confidence, elegance and precision which alone can make the accomplishment graceful and profitable.
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'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.
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In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
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Never learn to do anything: if you don't learn, you'll always find someone else to do it for you.
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A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
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All schools, all colleges have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge.
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Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.
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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. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
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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 on either occasion.
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What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce.
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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
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