Mark Twain Quotes

At its best, schooling can be about how to make a life, which is quite different from how to make a living.

True education is limited to those people who would die without knowing, whereas the masses in the institutions are merely going through the motions, for education is a way of living.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

Knowledge is real knowledge only when it is acquired by the efforts of your intellect, not by memory

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

It is of no use to commit whole pages to memory, merely to recite them once without hesitation; you must think of the meaning more than the words - of the ideas more than the language.

Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.

The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

Men may be spoiled by education, even as they are spoiled by illiteracy. Education is the preparation of the mind for future work, hence men should be educated with special reference to the work.

I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture.

Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word.

The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again.

Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.

The mere imparting of information is not education.

For the educational establishment... test scores are treated as indications of the extent to which the required ground covering has been done. ...as educationally significant. However, while they may be prognostic of a child's ability to get through school... they do not provide us with an appraisal of the child's progress in the long process of becoming a generally educated human being -- the advance made toward a more skillful, thoughtful, and cultivated mind.

Many of you have been reared on the cliche that the purpose of education isn't to stuff your head with facts but to teach you how to think. Wrong.

We think about education as a stepping stone into a higher socio-economic class, into a better job. And it does do those things. But I don't think that's what it really is. I experienced it as getting access to different ideas and perspectives and using them to construct my own mind.

It is no small mischief to a boy, that many of the best years of his life should be devoted to the learning of what can never be of any real use to any human being. His mind is necessarily rendered frivolous and superficial by the long habit of attaching importance to words instead of things; to sound instead of sense.