Self Education Quotes

I try never to let my schooling get in the way of my education.

I realized a school doesn't need a School Committee or Trustees or Governors or lumber or approved textbooks. All a school needs is a mind that sends and minds that receive. I shall teach my own students how to teach themselves. My own school. No buildings. Break out of the classroom prison. All I need is SKY. The Universe can be my classroom - the great vast world of the Concord countryside.

Libraries are absolutely at the center of my life. Since I couldn't afford to go to college, I attended the library three or four days a week from the age of eighteen on, and graduated from the library when I was twenty-eight.

Most people who decide to grow personally find their first mentors in the pages of books.

I never went to college, so I went to the library.

An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, ‘What’s your alma mater?’ I told him, ‘Books.

To become self-educated you should condemn yourself for all those things that you would criticize others.

Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.

Libraries raised me.

Simply making consistent investments in our self-education and knowledge banks pays major dividends throughout our lives.

I do not allow my schooling to interfere with my education

A library is all the university you will ever need.

You must live feverishly in a library. Colleges are not going to do any good unless you are raised and live in a library everyday of your life.

Every person of learning is finally his own teacher.

From now on I hope always to educate myself as best I can. But lacking this, in future I will relaxedly turn back to my secret mind to see what it has observed when I thought I was sitting this one out. We never sit anything out.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. A successful business owner never stops learning. They educate themselves on the things they need to learn, and they never stop growing. They never arrive at a certain point and think, ahhh... now I don't need to learn anymore.

I know a good many men of great learning-that is, men born with an extraordinary eagerness and capacity to acquire knowledge. One and all, they tell me that they can't recall learning anything of any value in school. All that schoolmasters managed to accomplish with them was to test and determine the amount of knowledge that they had already acquired independently-and not infrequently the determination was made clumsily and inaccurately.

If you don't educate yourself, this is an area of your life that it is a game.

Ten guards and the warden couldn't have torn me out of those books. Months passed without even thinking about being imprisoned....I had never been so truly free in my life.

If you love to read, you can learn anything you really want to know.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.

I always like to learn, but I don't always like to be taught.

I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.

If you step up the self-education curve, you will come up with more answers than you can use.

The biggest thing I did was that I used to go to the library. I fed my mind every day.

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.

Begin by instructing yourself, then you will receive instruction from others.

I think self-education is the greatest and best thing you could ever make.