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Mark Twain Quotes about School

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The problem with education is school.

The problem with education is school.

Mark Twain
School, Problem

Out of the public schools comes the greatness of the nation.

Mark Twain
Education, School, Greatness

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.

Mark Twain
Education, Dog, School
Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.46, Chartwell

Thou shalt not commit adultry is a command which makes no distinction between the following persons. They are all required to obey it: children at birth. Children in the cradle. School children. Youths and maidens. Fresh adults. Older ones. Men and women of 40. Of 50. Of 60. Of 70. Of 80. Of 100. The command does not distribute its burden equally, and cannot. It is not hard upon the three sets of children.

Mark Twain
Children, School, Men
Mark Twain (1973). “What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings”, p.437, Univ of California Press

All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot justly be regarded as less valuable than that which they reveal. That is, when a man is buying a basket of strawberries it can profit him to know that the bottom half of it is rotten.

Mark Twain
Religious, Educational, School
Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.222, Courier Corporation

What a curious kind of fool a girl is. Never been licked in school. What's a licking?

Mark Twain
Girl, School, Fool
Mark Twain (2005). “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Literary Touchstone Edition”, p.122, Prestwick House Inc

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

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

The first half of my life I went to school, the second half of my life I got an education.

Mark Twain
School, Half, Firsts

A monarch, when good, is entitled to the consideration which we accord to a pirate who keeps Sunday School between crimes; when bad, he is entitled to none at all.

Mark Twain
School, Sunday, Pirate
Mark Twain, Michael Barry Frank, Robert Pack Browning, Lin Salamo, Frederick Anderson, Mark Twain (1980). “Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume III: (1883-1891)”, p.399, Univ of California Press

The introduction of homeopathy forced the old school doctor to stir around and learn something of a rational nature about his business. You may honestly feel grateful that homeopathy survived the attempts of the allopaths to destroy it.

Mark Twain
Grateful, School, Doctors

It is better to support schools than jails.

Mark Twain
School, Jail, Support
Mark Twain (2016). “Mark Twain's Speeches”, p.94, Xist Publishing

School gets in the way of my learning.

Mark Twain
School, Way

Schoolboy days are no happier than the days of afterlife, but we look back upon them regretfully because we have forgotten our punishments at school and how we grieved when our marbles were lost and our kites destroyed – because we have forgotten all the sorrows and privations of the canonized ethic and remember only its orchard robberies, its wooden-sword pageants, and its fishing holidays.

Mark Twain
School, Holiday, Fishing
Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.4550, Delphi Classics

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