Mark Twain Quotes
Training- training is everything; training is all there is to a person. We speak of nature; it is folly; there is no such thing as nature; what we call by that misleading name is merely heredity and training. We have no thoughts of our own, no opinions of our own; they are transmitted to us, trained into us.
Twain, Mark. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Charles L. Webster & Co., 1889.
He was the intellectual antithesis of Francis Galton and the Eugenicists in the Nature vs Nurture debates.
Burrhus Frederic Skinner
Traditional Islamic education of the time only dealt with the Koran but the skills of modern life, medicine, law, science were taught in the British secular schools, which Muslims generally would not attend. Kahn urged all is fellow Muslims to benefit from all forms of education.
This quotation split the liberal thought and the feminists of the day. On the one hand he compared women to savages in their intellectual development. However, he clearly attributed that fact to the lack of opportunity for both.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He was lauded as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," and William Faulkner called him "the father of American literature". His novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), the latter often called "The Great American Novel".
