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Mark Twain Quotes about Education

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

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

Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.26, St. Martin's Press

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

Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.15, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 5, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.390, Courier Corporation

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

c.1897 Quoted in Albert Bigelow Paine (ed) MarkTwain's Notebook (1935).

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

Mark Twain (2015). “The Prince and the Pauper (StoneHenge Classics)”, p.154, StoneHenge Classics

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

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.485, Courier Corporation

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

Mark Twain (2006). “Mark Twain Speaking”, p.362, University of Iowa Press

All schools, all colleges have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge.

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.425, Courier Corporation

Never learn to do anything: if you don't learn, you'll always find someone else to do it for you.

Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.297, Courier Corporation