Quotes on Self Education

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

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

I still say the only education worth anything is self-education.

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

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.

Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.

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.

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

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.

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

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.

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

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 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.

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.

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