Quote about schooling interfering with education (Grant Allen 1894) (attrib Mark Twain 1907)

[Herb Stahlke]

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On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Victor Steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Subject:      Re: Quote about schooling interfering with education (Grant Allen
>              1894) (attrib Mark Twain 1907)
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> It seems one may never grow idle having chosen to debunk the witticisms
> attributed to Mark Twain.
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> One contemporary citation attributes the line not merely to Mark Twain,
> but to Huckleberry Finn.
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> George Bernard Shaw and Churchill are two other frequent targets of
> spurious attribution--I know of at least three lines attributed to them
> both, by different source, and two of those I know to have come from
> someone else.
>
>     VS-)
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> On 2/16/2010 7:58 AM, Garson O'Toole wrote:
>> I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
>>
>> This well-known quote is often attributed to Mark Twain. I hypothesize
>> that the saying was originally crafted and popularized by the science
>> writer and novelist Grant Allen starting in 1894.
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>> ...
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