Quotes About Autodidactism

I love 'Teach Yourself' books. I bought an old weaving loom and had no time for classes, but one 'Teach Yourself' later, and my bobbin is flying.

Self-study, in a sense of learning by yourself without anybody teaching you anything, has an enormous value.

The idea of education has been so tied to schools, universities, and professors that many assume there is no other way, but education is available to anyone within reach of a library, a post office, or even a newsstand.

The better part of every man's education is that which he gives himself.

As to the learning that any person gains from school education, it serves only, like a small capital, to put him in a way of beginning learning for himself afterward.

The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.

One could get a first-class education from a shelf of books five feet long.

Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.

I always encourage self-taught before all other methods. Otherwise, we will end up filling our minds with the opinions of others.