Mark Twain Quotes About Teaching

• 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

• You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Inspiring, Meaningful

  Mark Twain (1889). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.422, Createspace Independent Pub

• When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?

  Mark Twain

  Country, Party, Teaching

• The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

  Mark Twain

  Sweet, Children, Teaching

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.7, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come, not of book teaching, but of experience.

  Mark Twain

  Book, Teaching, Lessons

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.162, Chartwell

• It is noble to teach oneself; it is still nobler to teach others.

  Mark Twain

  Teaching, Noble, Stills

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.467, Courier Corporation

• Figures don't lie, but liars figure.

  Mark Twain

  Liars, Lying, Teaching

• Teaching is like trying to hold 35 corks underwater at once.

  Mark Twain

  Teaching, Trying, Underwater

• He could charm an audience an hour on a stretch without ever getting rid of an idea.

  Mark Twain

  Teaching, Ideas, Personality

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.452, Courier Corporation

• When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.

  Mark Twain

  Kings, Teaching, Book

  Mark Twain (2015). “The Prince and the Pauper”, p.19, Xist Publishing

• Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.

  Mark Twain

  Education, Running, Teaching

  A Curious Dream "Facts Concerning the Recent Resignation" (1872)

• there was no crime in unconscious plagiarism; that I committed it everyday, that he committed it everyday, that every man alive on earth who writes or speaks commits it every day and not merely once or twice but every time he open his mouth… there is nothing of our own in it except some slight change born of our temperament, character, environment, teachings and associations

  Mark Twain

  Teaching, Writing, Character

• You have heretofore found out, by my teachings, that man is a fool; you are now aware that woman is a damned fool.

  Mark Twain

  Teaching, Men, Fool

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.3099, GENERAL PRESS

• There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.

  Mark Twain

  Teaching, Assessment, Personality

  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) ch. 1

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