Mark Twain Quotes About Teaching
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The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come, not of book teaching, but of experience.
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When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.
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Figures don't lie, but liars figure.
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When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?
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It is noble to teach oneself; it is still nobler to teach others.
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Teaching is like trying to hold 35 corks underwater at once.
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There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.
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When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble.
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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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You have heretofore found out, by my teachings, that man is a fool; you are now aware that woman is a damned fool.
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there was no crime in unconscious plagiarism; that I committed it everyday, that he committed it everyday, that every man alive on earth who writes or speaks commits it every day and not merely once or twice but every time he open his mouth… there is nothing of our own in it except some slight change born of our temperament, character, environment, teachings and associations
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He could charm an audience an hour on a stretch without ever getting rid of an idea.
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The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.
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You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
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