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By the miracle of teaching, I can give you some of my ability, without losing any of it myself.
Sep 10, 2025
All I have learned, I learned from books.
I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money.
I learned most, not from those who taught me but from those who talked with me.
Self-education only produces expressions of self.
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
It is doubtful whether our present system of popular education does not retard independent or self thinking as much as it promotes it. All genuine education is self-education. It will incite the individual to think for himself, by rethinking what the race's great thinkers have already thought for him, thus enabling him to go ahead under his own mental steam.
Man is a willful and covetous animal, who makes use of his intellect to satisfy his inclinations, but who cares nothing for truth, who rebels against personal discipline, who hates disinterested thought and the idea of self-education. Wisdom offends him, because it rouses in him disturbance and confusion, and because he will not see himself as he is.
Actually, all education is self-education. A teacher is only a guide, to point out the way, and no school, no matter how excellent, can give you education. What you receive is like the outlines in a child’s coloring book. You must fill in the colors yourself.
I don't believe in colleges and universities.
I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
Cafeteria-style education, combined with the unwillingness of our schools to place demands on students, has resulted in a steady diminishment of commonly shared information between generations and between young people themselves.
You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety.
Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
A Student is the most important person ever in this school...in person, on the telephone, or by mail. A Student is not dependent on us...we are dependent on the Student. A Student is not an interruption of our work..the Studenti s the purpose of it. We are not doing a favor by serving the Student...the Student is doing us a favor by giving us the opportunity to do so. A Student is a person who brings us his or her desire to learn. It is our job to handle each Student in a manner which is beneficial to the Student and ourselves.
When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.
Then get busy and find out how to do it.
No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for the mere slave of a routine of self- education to stuff himself with every sort of incongruous intellectual food in one indigestible meal.
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.
Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can - there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.
I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.
Self-education is a continuing source of pleasure to me, for the more I know, the fuller my life is and the better I appreciate my own existence
What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.
Only the curious will learn and only the resolute will overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
I think education is power. I think that being able to communicate with people is power. One of my main goals on the planet is to encourage people to empower themselves.
Let every student enter the school with this advice. No matter how good the school is, his education is in his own hands. All education must be self education.
School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
Learning is not compulsory; it's voluntary... But to survive, we must learn.
I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.
Anyone who stops learning is old — whether this happens at twenty or at eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young but becomes constantly more valuable — regardless of physical capacity.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
I spent the 1960s and 1970s seeking myself - the working-class tradition of self-education.