What does this quote mean exactly? "I never let my schooling get in the way of my education" Mark Twain
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It's like saying "I never let religion get in the way of my faith."\n\nWhen you formalize things, set down rules, and introduce bureaucracy, it takes away from the true experience.
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"Whitout" school. \n\nIt's true.\n\nYour future is behind you.
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It sounds like it means don't overexamine things (level downward to our dullest perception) and use common sense.  Something like that.\n\nEverybody does need common sense though, if you think about it.  No matter how much higher education you have, if you don't have any common sense, you might be worse off than an auto mechanic who has common sense.  A business man with all of these degrees making choices without using common sense is a disaster waiting to happen.
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I don't know who said it, or the actual quote but it went along the lines of, "If you have 1 true friend, then you have succeeded in life".  I have plenty of true friends and I already feel like my life has mattered (whether for the better or worst I cannot say).  I remember a discussion we had in a class once in which a teacher said, no matter what we do, we will not matter in the large scale of things.  I disagreed of course and stated of course we change history.  For example, what if the man who invented the atom bomb were never born?  What if the people who researched penicillian had different paths and what if certain events, such as a teacher telling a student to get back in line and the student following through never occured?  Had that teacher not been there, the students' world could be very different.\n\nSo, I think everyone's life does matter in some way shape or form, unless you have no interaction with anyone at anytime your life does matter.  And even if you don't, in some way you are still a part of the earth, even when you die and become the ground again.
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that it's not always common.\n\nmy teacher kept telling me that.  "common sense is not always common."
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"Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception."...The Mysterious Stranger\n\n-Mark Twain
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Dude, are you in my class?  I asked my 3rd graders the first one.  Franklin quote.  I think the last quote has to do with expectations.  Just because you're not the one pulling the trigger doesn't mean you're a hero for standing there and watching it.  If you're surrounded by people who do nothing or little with their lives, anything you do in the other direction might be considered great.  However, you're still just any old guy, not any better than anyone else.  It might just mean that short people should hang out with little people to make themselves feel better.
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I think that this is probably a variation on a quote that I have heard attributed to Mark Twain and Abe Lincoln. I found it also credited to Samuel Johnson. Samuel Johnson died before Abe and Twain were born, so I give him credit. The quote is as follows...."It is better to remain silent and thought a fool, than open one's mouth and remove all doubt."\n\nIn other words....keep em guessing.
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If ignorance is bliss, school is a deliberate attempt on its part to deprive me of happiness, the pursuit of which is my unalienable right according to the Declaration of Independence. I therefore assert my patriotic prerogative not to know the material at hand. \n\nin other words not me!
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You really need more of the poem in order to really explain the line.\n\nI'm going to guess that you're quoting William Wordsworth, and say that it basically means that the child grows into a man.  Generally a person keeps a similar personality throughout most of their life, especially once they've become a teenager.  What Wordsworth was saying in that poem is that the person he was as a child still exist within him now that he is fully grown, and will still be there when he is older.  It's one of those whole your past affects your present affects your future things.
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Just this... that I was careful not to let schooling interfere with my education. Sounds like a paradox right?
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Physically.. I am a athelete.\nMentally...I am a student.\n\n\n\n"Never stop striving for perfection, never stop learning"
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I suspect it's supposed to be something like "Quod quondam iterum ego vado, in profundis vorago existimo iaci" which means something like "Whichever path I travel (in the past, in the future, sometimes), I judge myself to be thrown into a profound pit."\n\nIt didn't make much sense to me in the first version…I suspect it's a bad computer translation.
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I am not sure what you will find historically about this quote, however, I know that back in the '50's it was a saying that many "southern" mothers would quote.  The saying, as far as I know and heard my grandmothers and their friends talk about, means that if you 'dig deep into the lie a person obviously is telling, or has told,  you will find that he/she is capable of, or has already stolen. " My mom would carry that statement further and even today, I find myself quoting it: " if you lie, you'll cheat, if you cheat, you'll steal..." I think that also falls into the same category.  In a nutshell, if you are capable of lying, then there is nothing that you probably will not do.  I hope this helps.  It brought back memories.
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"Twain originally wanted to be a serious artist; his turn toward humor damaged his artistic promise: ". . . it was in consequence of pursuing it, we have divined, that he was arrested in his moral and aesthetic development" (Brooks 13)."\n\nThe only reference to arrested I could find in regards to Mark Twain... in this case it means stopped, not taken to jail. \n\nhttp://www.uncp.edu/home/canada/work/allam/18661913/lit/twain.htm
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It shows you that if we dont remember and learn from the past were going to forget everything we ever fought for.everyone that ever died.. everyone that fought. cuz are freedom wasnt free..... i really like that quote!
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taken out of context, the quote's meaning is hard to dtermine with certainty.  my take is that without knowledge, people cannot "stand up" for their rights or values.\n\nin relation to bush, i guess you could say that since he has cut education spending so much, he will create a population of "empty bags" who will be easy to manipulate