"What a curious kind of fool a..." - Quote by Mark Twain

“Who would find out that I am a natural fool if I kept always cool and never let nature come to the surface? Nobody.”

“In German, a young lady has no sex, but a turnip has”

“Human nature is the same everywhere; it deifies success, it has nothing but scorn for defeat.”

“A child must feel the flush of victory and the heart-sinking of disappointment before he takes with a will to the tasks distasteful to him and resolves to dance his way through a dull routine of textbooks.”

“A child develops individuality long before he develops taste.”

“One has to completely humiliate oneself to be what the Beatles were . . . . It happened bit by bit, until . . . you're doing exactly what you don't want to do with people you can't stand -- the people you hated when you were ten.”

“Education is what you must acquire without any interference from your schooling.”

“A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.”

“In the school I went to, they asked a kid to prove the law of gravity and he threw the teacher out of the window.”