Mark Twain

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

Virtue has never been as respectable as money.

Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people’s perspectives… I really try and live the mission of the company and… keep everything else in my life extremely simple.

Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

The function of this school is custodial. It’s here to keep these kids off the streets until the girls are big enough to get pregnant and the boys are old enough to go out and hold up a gas station.

Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes.

In our culture and in culture sometimes they make you feel a little be weird for being smart… but we are intelligent people and our dreams matter regardless of if you speak with an accent and people think that that makes you not intelligent.

You must unlearn what you have learned.

You are your own teacher. Investigate yourself to find the truth – inside, not outside. Knowing yourself is most important.

An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn’t take his education too seriously.

But before any great things are accomplished, a memorable change must be made in the system of Education and knowledge must become so general as to raise the lower ranks of Society nearer to the higher. The Education of a Nation, instead of being confined to a few schools & Universities, for the instruction of the few, must become the National Care and expence, for the information of the Many.

That’s the way to study history-by noting evolutionary processes.

An educated person, I think, is one who not only knows a lot, but knows how to do a lot of things.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.

Learn something new every day.

I never cut class. I loved getting A’s, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.