Quote by Mark Twain
Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned. - Mark Twain

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned. – Mark Twain

Other quotes by Mark Twain

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. Its like feeding a dog on his own tail. It wont fatten the dog. – Mark Twain

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Prison
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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. – Mark Twain

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Society
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A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to us than the 99 which we had to work for, and the money won at Faro or in the stock market snuggles into our hearts in the same way. – Mark Twain

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Gambling
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Other Quotes from
Education
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Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education. – Sargent Shriver

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Education

In Holland, they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education, because they have found it impracticable to unite the religious bodies in any system of combined religious instruction. – Richard Cobden

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Education

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Education

I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted. – Dalai Lama

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Education

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The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish poetry comes more closely in many respects to Japanese poetry than any other form of Western poetry. – Lafcadio Hearn

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You know, were each the hero of our own story and we perceive whats going on around us, and especially in a relationship, from the kind of viewpoint of, Well, this is my story, and Im the hero of that, and I justify what I do around it. – Michael Sheen

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The film is not a success until it makes money. Its only good when theres a dollar figure attached to the box office. – John Cusack

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Success

My feet have several thousand meetings scheduled with the dirt on a trail not far from here. Who am I to keep them waiting? Time to run. – Jeb Dickerson, jebdickerson.com

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Running