Quotes & Sayings About Education Mark Twain

Education is what remains when what is learned has been taken away. — Mark Twain

My land, the power of training! Of influence! Of education! It can bring a body up to believe anything. — Mark Twain

The problem with education is school. — Mark Twain

Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty. — Mark Twain

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

You can see by these things that she was of a rather vain and frivolous character; still, she had virtues, and enough to make up, I think. She had a kind heart and gentle ways, and never harbored resentments for injuries done her, but put them easily out of her mind and forgot them; and she taught her children her kindly way, and from her we learned also to be brave and prompt in time of danger, and not to run away, but face the peril that threatened friend or stranger, and help him the best we could without stopping to think what the cost might be to us. And she taught us not by words only, but by example, and that is the best way and the surest and the most lasting. Why, the brave things she did, the splendid things! she was just a soldier; and so modest about it - well, you couldn't help admiring her, and you couldn't help imitating her; not even a King Charles spaniel could remain entirely despicable in her society. So, as you see, there was more to her than her education. — Mark Twain

Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out. — Mark Twain

Never let school get in the way of your education.
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The first half of my life I went to school, the second half of my life I got an education. — Mark Twain

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

Secondly, these missionaries would gradually, and without creating suspicion or exciting alarm, introduce a rudimentary cleanliness among the nobility, and from them it would work down to the people, if the priests could be kept quiet. This would undermine the Church. I mean would be a step toward that. Next, education - next, freedom - and then she would begin to crumble. It being my conviction that any Established Church is an established crime, an established slave-pen, I had no scruples, but was willing to assail it in any way or with any weapon that promised to hurt it. Why, in my own former day - in remote centuries not yet stirring in the womb of time - there were old Englishmen who imagined that they had been born in a free country: a "free" country with the Corporation Act and the Test still in force in it - timbers propped against men's liberties and dishonored consciences to shore up an Established Anachronism with. — Mark Twain

Learning to play two pairs is worth about as much as a college education, and about as costly. — Mark Twain

I had been to school most all the time, and could spell, and read, and write just a little, and could say the multiplication table up to six times seven is thirty-five, and I don't reckon I could ever get any further than that if I was to live forever. I don't take no stock in mathematics, anyway. — Mark Twain

I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre. If he could not approve of the massacre, I said the next surest thing for an Indian was soap and education. Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run; because a half-massacred Indian may recover, but if you educate him and wash him, it is bound to finish him some time or other. — Mark Twain

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. — Mark Twain

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. — Mark Twain

Inherently, each one of us has the substance within to achieve whatever our goals and dreams define. What is missing from each of us is the training, education, knowledge and insight to utilize what we already have. — Mark Twain

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

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. — Mark Twain

I do not allow my schooling to interfere with my education — Mark Twain

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned. — Mark Twain

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

I never let school get in the way of my education! — Mark Twain

Out of the public schools comes the greatness of the nation. — Mark Twain

In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards. — Mark Twain

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

Don't let school interfere with your education. — Mark Twain

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

I've never let my school interfere with my education. — Mark Twain

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

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. — Mark Twain

Never let your education interfere with your learning. — Mark Twain

Don't let schooling interfere with your education. — Mark Twain

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

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. — Mark Twain

A Christian mother's first duty is to soil her child's mind, and she does not neglect it. Her lad grows up to be a missionary, and goes to the innocent savage and to the civilized Japanese, and soils their minds. Whereupon they adopt immodesty, they conceal their bodies, they stop bathing naked together. — Mark Twain