A Quote by Mark Twain

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

Mark Twain

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Education Consists Mainly

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Mark Twain
American - Writer
November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910

We often hear that mathematics consists mainly of "proving theorems." Is a writer's job mainly that of "writing sentences?"

Gian-Carlo Rota

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly ofthe storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Mark Twain

I write for the unlearned about things in which I am unlearned myself.

C. S. Lewis

The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education.

Paul Feyerabend

It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever blowing through one's head.

Mark Twain

We may not doubt that society in heaven consists mainly of undesirable persons.

Mark Twain

A day in the life of Ronnie Coleman mainly consists of eating, training or sleeping.

Ronnie Coleman

Schools have not necessarily much to do with education...they are mainly institutions of control where certain basic habits must be inculcated in the young. Education is quite different and has little place in school.

Winston Churchill

Man has got to take charge of Man.... Then real education, including pre-natal education. By real education I mean one that has no 'take-it-or-leave-it' nonsense. A real education makes the patient what it wants infallibly: whatever he or his parents try to do about it. Of course, it'll have to be mainly psychological at first. But we'll get on to biochemical conditioning int he end and direct manipulation of the brain.

C. S. Lewis

My focus is mainly on education. I believe education made all the difference for me, and it is certainly going to make all the difference for other children, too.

Ram Shriram

Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind.

Plato

Politics, as hopeful men practise it in the world, consists mainly of the delusion that a change in form is a change in substance.

H. L. Mencken

The mystery of writing advertisements consists mainly in saying in a few plain words exactly what it is desired to say, precisely as it would be written in a letter or told to an acquaintance.

George P. Rowell

I am an education ambassador, mainly working with schools.

Daley Thompson

My audience consists mainly of people who already recognize how bad this culture is, and I want to push them to become more radical. It doesn't really matter to me if they are Left or Right.