Browsing Topic Best Self Education Quotes

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

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.

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.

Knowledge is recognizing what you know and what you don’t.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

Vitally important for a young man or woman is, first, to realize the value of education and then to cultivate earnestly, aggressively, ceaselessly, the habit of self-education.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

No one can take it away from you.

It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail. It is a grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

By the miracle of teaching, I can give you some of my ability, without losing any of it myself.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

To finish first you have to first finish. Don’t get in a position where you go back to go. What’s interesting is that some guy whose grandfather was a lawyer and a judge-hurriedly going to Harvard Law with a wave of veterans-I was willing to go into so many different businesses. I was constantly going right into the other fellow’s business and doing better than the other fellow did. The reason it was possible? Self-education- developing mental discipline, big ideas that really work.

Education is a matter of the spirit. No wiser word has been said on the subject, and yet we persist in applying education from without. No one knoweth the things of the man except the spirit of man which is in him; therefore, there is no education but self-education, and as soon as a young child begins his education, he does so as a student. Our business is to give him mind stuff. Both quantity and quality are essential.

There is no education but self-education.

Therefore, teaching, talk and tale, however lucid or fascinating, effect nothing until self-activity be set up; that is, self-education is the only possible education; the rest is mere veneer laid on the surface of a child’s nature.

Teachers open the door … you enter by yourself.

Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you’ve got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read.

Always educate yourself.

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

Willful ignorance and endless laws become the replacement for self-education and self-restraint, because ignorance and laws are easy.

We need to unlearn some of our respect for education, since it has undermined our respect for ourselves.

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.

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 best and most important part of every man’s education is that which he gives himself.

I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for ones self.

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.