Mark Twain Quotes

Education is suffering from narration sickness.

You know there's a problem [with the education system] when you realize that out of the three R’s, only one begins with an R.

I always enjoyed the kids, but I didn't enjoy the bureaucracy of the educational system.

I studied secondary education.

My education was interrupted only by my schooling.

School is an institution built on the axiom that learning is the result of teaching. And institutional wisdom continues to accept this axiom, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

We have always believed that our people can stand on no higher ground than the school ground, or can enter any more hopeful room than the classroom. We blend time and faith and knowledge in our schools - not only to create educated citizens, but also to shape the destiny of this great Republic.

I never lose sight of the fact that before I was a writer, I was a teacher. I still am. My classroom's just gotten a little bigger.

School prepares for the alienating institutionalization of life by teaching the need to be taught.

My mother, who was professional schoolteacher, was particularly concerned about our formal education and even went so far as to start a private school together with some other parents so that our intellectual needs would be met.

Our approach to education has remained largely unchanged since the Renaissance: From middle school through college, most teaching is done by an instructor lecturing to a room full of students, only some of them paying attention.

Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need.

Having been an educator for so many years I know that all a good teacher can do is set a context, raise questions or enter into a kind of a dialogic relationship with their students.

A child knows when they are on the receiving end of a didactic exercise, or when they are sitting in the shadow of something else.

I actually just started home schooling. And it is great.

I think universities are trying to figure out how we could use what we know about learning to change our education system, but it is sort of funny that they don't necessarily seem to be consulting the people who are sitting right there on campus.

Once I started the first school, I realized this is what my life is meant to be, is to promote education and help kids go to school, and that's very clear.

What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?

I think the whole system of education would change if I were in charge and had the ability to make changes. I don't think I would keep Princeton exactly being Princeton.

I was an elementary school teacher.

I majored in elementary education, and I have a passion for kids.

The legislator should direct his attention above all to the education of youth.

Of all our institutions public education is the most important. Everything depends on it, the present and the future.

Students Are Not Widgets. Schools Are Not Factories.