Mark Twain on Education
Browse 4 quotations attributed to Mark Twain, catalogued under education, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Mark Twain, entry #24415: "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;"
Attributed to Mark Twain, entry #87711: "Humor must not professedly teach, and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever. By forever, I mean thirty years."
4 Quotes by Mark Twain on Education
"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;"
"Humor must not professedly teach, and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever. By forever, I mean thirty years."
"In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then He made School Boards."
"We believe that out of the public school grows the greatness of a nation."