I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

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About Mark Twain

Portrait of Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He has been praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced", with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature". Twain's novels include...

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By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.

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It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

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It was kind of solemn drifting down the big still river laying on our backs looking up at stars and we didn't even feel like talking aloud.

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.

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I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

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I would agree that learning is a natural act if we are talking about the kind of learning that happens in a healthy relationship between a mother and her baby or between two people getting to know each other. But schooling is not a natural act. Quite the contrary: The institution of School, with its daily lesson plans, fixed curriculum, standardized tests, and other such paraphernalia tends constantly to reduce learning to a series of technical acts and the teacher to the role of a technician. Of course, it never fully succeeds, for teachers resist the role of technician and bring warm, natural human relationships into their classrooms. But what is important for thinking about the potential for megachange is that this situation places the teacher in a state of tension between two poles: School tries to make the teacher into a technician; in most cases a sense of self resists, though in many the teacher will have internalized School's concept of teaching. Each teacher is therefore somewhere along the continuum between technician and what I dare call a true teacher.

—Seymour Papert in The Children's Machine: Rethinking School in the Age of the Computer

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School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.

—Barbara Kingsolver

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You must adjust. … This is the legend imprinted in every schoolbook, the invisible message on every blackboard. Our schools have become vast factories for the manufacture of robots.

—Robert Lindner

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My schooling did me a great deal of harm and no good whatever; it was simply dragging a child's soul through the dirt.

—George Bernard Shaw

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