Mark Twain Teaching Quotations

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

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

It is noble to teach oneself; it is still nobler to teach others.

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

When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble.

When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?

Teaching is like trying to hold 35 corks underwater at once.

He could charm an audience an hour on a stretch without ever getting rid of an idea.

there was no crime in unconscious plagiarism; that I committed it everyday, that he committed it everyday, that every man alive on earth who writes or speaks commits it every day and not merely once or twice but every time he open his mouth… there is nothing of our own in it except some slight change born of our temperament, character, environment, teachings and associations

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

When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.

There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.