Mark Twain Quotes About School
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It is better to support schools than jails.
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Out of the public schools comes the greatness of the nation.
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I've never let my school interfere with my education.
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Don't let schooling interfere with your education.
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Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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What a curious kind of fool a girl is. Never been licked in school. What's a licking?
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It used to take me all vacation to grow a new hide in place of the one they flogged off me during school term.
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School gets in the way of my learning.
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In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
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The problem with education is school.
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All schools, all colleges have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge.
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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.
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The first half of my life I went to school, the second half of my life I got an education.
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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.
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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.
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Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either occasion.
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God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.
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