Mark Twain Quotes

I try never to let my schooling get in the way of my education.

I listen to Radio 4 all the time. I didn't go to university, so that's my further education.

I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university.

Whatever education I got was from experience and reading. But I also realize I wouldn't pass my friend's sixth-grade class.

I had never attended high school, but I was fairly well read.

I graduated from Wayne State University, but there's a whole lot you don't learn in school.

I never went to college, so I went to the library.

I quit school in ninth grade, even though I was good at the studies. I knew I didn't need school for what I wanted.

We have been taught (that is, schooled) in this country to think of 'success' as synonymous with, or at least dependent upon, 'schooling,' but historically that isn’t true in either an intellectual or a financial sense. And plenty of people throughout the world today find a way to educate themselves without resorting to a system of compulsory secondary schools that all too often resemble prison.

I have long since abandoned the notion that higher education is essential to either success or happiness. Hothouses of learning do not always grow anything edible.

I didn't have a regular school experience and wanted a more abstract way of learning. I started exploring in lots of different creative ways. It gave me the opportunity to travel and play music, so it was good for me.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

I didn't go to school much. I was thrown out of different schools, and my university is the street.

Gaining my education from practical experience certainly benefited me. If I had gone on to be a lawyer, my life wouldn't have been anywhere near as interesting.

I'm not a prophet. I'm not a teacher. I have no degrees. My degree is from the University of Life.

I wouldn't wish any specific thing for any specific person - it's none of my business. But the idea that a four-year degree is the only path to worthwhile knowledge is insane. It's insane.

I educated myself. To me, school was boring.

I've never been a big believer in formal education.

The thing that what we're taught in the public school system is everything you should know, I disagree with that. The most brilliant people in the world were dropouts - not that I'm pro-dropping out.

Are any of us self-taught? It just means I didn't go to school for it. But you do have teachers. You have mentors.

I didn't read much in high school, maybe because I didn't go to high school. Instead, I worked.

We have this mistaken notion that everybody in the world has to go to college. The colleges are already crowded with people who never in this world will absorb more than a rudimentary education, and we dilute everything to meet this low standard.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

If it is noticed that much of my outside work concerns itelf with libraries, there is an extremely good reason for this. I think that the better part of my education, almost as important as that secured in the schools and the universities, came from libraries.

I believe you need to be educated about what you want to do in life, but I don't believe you actually need college to get you there.