Mark Twain Education Quotations

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

I've never let my school interfere with my education.

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

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.

Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned

Education does not mean teaching people to know what they do not know; it means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.

Education is the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

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

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

Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.

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.

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

Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail.

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.

I try never to let my schooling get in the way of my education.

Man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.

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

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.

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.