Mark Twain Quotes

I never intended to be a teacher. I just like going to school and learning things.

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.

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?

My father had very little formal education.

Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.

We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.

Going to college is neither necessary nor sufficient to be well-educated.

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 said I 'liked' being half-educated; you were so much more 'surprised' at everything when you were ignorant.

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

Going to university is only one avenue to gain knowledge. There are others. A degree isn't insurance against ignorance.

Not all schooling is education nor all education, schooling.

The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.

Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance.

My alma mater was books, a good library.

No science is speedily learned by the noblest genius without tuition.

If you can read and don't, you're dumb.

How can people be anything but ignorant when knowledge isn't saved, isn't taught?

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books.

As all born teachers, he was primarily a student.

I suppose that in no educational institution can one become an educated person.

You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read.

Once you have learned to ask questions - relevant and appropriate and substantial questions - you have learned how to learn and no one can keep you from learning whatever you want or need to know.

In my early years I read very hard. It is a sad reflection, but a true one, that I knew almost as much at eighteen as I do now.