Quotes About Self-learning

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves -- you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.

For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves; and whatever instruction fails to do this is effort spent in vain.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.

The secret of sound education is to get each pupil to learn for himself, instead of instructing him by driving knowledge into him on a stereotyped system.

I bought a self learning record to learn Spanish. I turned it on and went to sleep; the record got stuck. The next day I could only stutter in Spanish.

In nine months, a group of children left alone with a computer - in any language - would reach the same standard as an office secretary in the West.

I prefer home school because you learn more by yourself than when you're around other people because you get distracted.

The secret of sound education is to get each pupil to learn for himself, instead of instructing him by driving knowledge into him on a stereotyped system.

So at about age 10, Albert started to teach himself. He was going to read as much about science as he could.

Learning isn't done to you; it's something you do.

Catch wrestling is pro wrestling, if you look at the ground moves and the rule set. It's just about learning the art of it for yourself.

Until all teachers are geniuses and enthusiasts, nobody will learn anything, except what they teach themselves.

There's so much free material on the Internet you can learn from, and some people are pure self-starters: they pick up computers and teach themselves everything. Certainly there are millions of people like that. But at the same time, I think it's a pretty small percentage of the population.

My older brother bought textbooks and was able to teach himself enough to go to college. When I was 16, he returned and told me to do the same thing.

Every person of learning is finally his own teacher.

Every person has two educations, one which he receives from others, and one, more important, which he gives to himself.

Even more valuable, I learned at an early age to teach myself.

I think that school just isn't for everyone. A lot of people don't learn well when they're - have to sit in a place for eight hours. A lot of people learn best lying in their own bed, teaching themselves from books. And I was a bad student. I was a brat. If I was a teacher, I would not have liked myself.

All of us have two educations; one which we receive from others; another and more valuable; which we give ourselves.

As Eisenstein affirmed, the impact of books to alter the master-apprentice traditional relationship was quite clear, as people could "instruct themselves primarily from books with a minimum of outside help" and "cut the bonds of subordination which kept pupils and apprentices under the tutelage of a given master.

Carlyle's axiom that the true university of these days is a good collection of books has remained valid as far as I'm concerned, and even today I am convinced that one can become an excellent philosopher, historian, philologist, lawyer, or what will you, without having attended a university or even a Gymnasium.

Though most students in those days read with an accomplished attorney in his office, Lincoln taught himself entirely on his own.

All learning is ultimately self-learning.

I don't need to spend money on school when I can just do it myself. I have pretty much everything I need with a camera and some funny friends.