"I spent three days a week for..." - Quote by Ray Bradbury
I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college.
More by Ray Bradbury
“I don't like realism. We already know the real facts about li[fe], most of the basic facts. I'm not interested in repeating what we already know. We know about sex, about violence, about murder, about war. All these things, by the time we're 18, we're up to here. From there on we need interpreters. We need poets. We need philosophers. We need theologians, who take the same basic facts and work with them and help us make do with those facts. Facts alone are not enough. It's interpretation.”
“Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.”
“What's the point of having a library full of books you've already read?”
More on Education
“The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.... In any case, the giving of love is an education in itself.”
“Of course we desire education and we think it is a good thing, but you don't have to have education in order to know that you want certain fundamental rights, you have got aspirations, you have got acclaims. It has nothing to do with education whatsoever.”
“Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.”
More on Libraries
“You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads... may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.”
“I have an unshaken conviction that democracy can never be undermined if we maintain our library resources and a national intelligence capable of utilizing them.”
“The doors of this Library are open now and are all welcome. The judgment of history is left to you, the people. I have no fears of that, for we have done our best. And so I say, come and learn from it.”