“Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Source: Notebook
Source: Mark Twain's Notebook (1935), p. 346
“The deeper education consists in unlearning one's first education.”
Source: An Anthology
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