Mark Twain Quotes on Education
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Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.
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Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.
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Citizenship? We have none! In place of it we teach patriotism which Samuel Johnson said a hundred and forty or a hundred and fifty years ago was the last refuge of the scoundrel -- and I believe that he was right. I remember when I was a boy and I heard repeated time and time again the phrase, 'My country, right or wrong, my country!' How absolutely absurd is such an idea. How absolutely absurd to teach this idea to the youth of the country.
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Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned.
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Never let your schooling interfere with your education.
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The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.