Mark Twain`s Speeches; with an Introduction by William Dean Howells
But I don't think it was wise or judicious on the part of Mr. Choate to show this higher education he has obtained. He sat in the lap of that great education (I was there at the time), and see the result-the lamentable result. Maybe if he had had a sandwich here to sustain him the result would not have been so serious.
Mark Twain`s Speeches; with an Introduction by William Dean Howells
For seventy-two years I have been striving to acquire that higher education which stands for modesty and diffidence, and it doesn't work.
Mark Twain`s Speeches; with an Introduction by William Dean Howells
I DON'T suppose that I am called here as an expert on education, for that would show a lack of foresight on your part and a deliberate intention to remind me of my shortcomings.
Mark Twain`s Speeches; with an Introduction by William Dean Howells
HOW difficult indeed, is the higher education. Mr. Choate needs a little of it. He is not only short as a statistician of New York, but he is off, far off, in his mathematics. The four thousand citizens of Greater New York, indeed!
Mark Twain`s Speeches; with an Introduction by William Dean Howells
We found him standing on a table in a saloon, with an old tin lantern in one hand and the school report in the other, haranguing a gang of "corned" miners on the iniquity of squandering the public money on education "when hundreds and hundreds of honest, hard-working men were literally starving for whiskey."
Mark Twain`s Speeches; with an Introduction by William Dean Howells
This theatre is a part of the work, and furnishes pure and clean plays. This theatre is an influence. Everything in the world is accomplished by influences which train and educate. When you get to be seventy-one and a half, as I am, you may think that your education is over, but it isn't.
Mark Twain`s Speeches; with an Introduction by William Dean Howells
It is from experiences such as these that you get your education of life, and you string them into jewels or into tinware, as you may choose. I have received recently several letters asking my counsel or advice. The principal request is for some incident that may prove helpful to the young. There were a lot of incidents in my career to help me along-sometimes they helped me along faster than I wanted to go.
Mark Twain`s Speeches; with an Introduction by William Dean Howells
As I sat here looking around for an idea it struck me that I was called for two reasons. One was to do good to me, a poor unfortunate traveller on the world's wide ocean, by giving me a knowledge of the nature and scope of your society and letting me know that others beside myself have been of some use in the world. The other reason that I can see is that you have called me to show by way of contrast what education can accomplish if administered in the right sort of