Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer. Among his novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyerand its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the latter often called "The Great American Novel"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth30 November 1835
CountryUnited States of America
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Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned
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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
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Education is the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
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Education does not mean teaching people to know what they do not know; it means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.
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When I was a boy on the Mississippi River there was a proposition in a township there to discontinue public schools because they were too expensive. An old farmer spoke up and said if they stopped building the schools they would not save anything, because every time a school was closed a jail had to be built.
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I never let schooling interfere with my education.
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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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Out of the public schools comes the greatness of the nation.
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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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The self taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known if he had worked under teachers, and besides, he brags, and is the means of fooling other thoughtless people into going and doing as he himself has done.
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I try never to let my schooling get in the way of my education.
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God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.
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A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
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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.