“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
As commonly credited to Mark Twain
- Credited to
- Mark Twain
- Actually said by
- Grant Allen
- Earliest known
- 1894
- First tied to Twain
- 1907
Findings
This was the quote that began my inquiry into misattributed quotes. I noticed I was hearing more of Mark Twain’s witticisms than his actual writings, so I started looking into the quotables I heard so often, only to find that so few stood up to scrutiny.
The line actually belongs to the Canadian essayist Grant Allen, who used it in a book in 1894. It wasn’t attributed to Twain until 1907, and there’s no confirmation he ever said it. Be judicious before citing it as a Twain quote.