Mark Twain Quotes About Teachers

• When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble.

  Mark Twain

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.390, Courier Corporation

• The self taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known if he had worked under teachers, and besides, he brags, and is the means of fooling other thoughtless people into going and doing as he himself has done.

  Mark Twain

  Teacher, Educational, Learning

  Mark Twain (1929). “Stormfield Edition of the Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.].: What is man? and other essays”

• There is nothing in either savage or civilized history that is more utterly complete, more remorselessly sweeping than the Father of Mercy´s campaign among the Midianites. The official report deals only in masses, all the virgins, all the men, all the babies. all ´creatures that breathe,´ all houses. all cities. It gives you just one vast picture ...as far as the eye can reach, of charred ruins and storm-swept desolation... Would you expect this same conscienceless God, this moral bankrupt, to become a teacher of morals, of gentleness, of meekness, of righteousness, of purity?

  Mark Twain

  Teacher, Baby, Father

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