Michel de Montaigne Quotes

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.

School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.

The highest culture is not obtained from the teacher when at school or college, so much as by our ever diligent self-education when we become men.

I suppose that in no educational institution can one become an educated person.

You can finish school, and even make it easy - but you never finish your education, and it's seldom easy.

The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom.

I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university.

I'm not a trained actor. I'm someone who is autodidactic and learned on my own.

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

I educate myself, but I haven't got the time or patience to enlist myself in a degree course. The world is my school.

Even though I only have a high-school degree, I'm a professional student.

Education is what you must acquire without any interference from your schooling.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college.

Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.

Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.

Life is a classroom -- only those who are willing to be lifelong learners will move to the head of the class.

When I graduated from high school I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library 3 days a week for 10 years.

In the ideal college, intrinsic education would be available to anyone who wanted it...The college would be life-long, for learning can take place all through life.

I was never educated to be an actor. I went to a regular college. It was a great thing for me because I feel that the main thing to get out of college is a thirst for knowledge. College should teach you how to be curious. Most people think that college is the end of education, but it isn't. The ceremony of giving you the diploma is called commencement. And that means you are fit to commence learning because you have learned hot to learn.

The first half of my life I went to school, the second half of my life I got an education.

Self-study, in a sense of learning by yourself without anybody teaching you anything, has an enormous value.

I educated myself, and it made me feel good. I went to museums. I read books. I did all the things, pretty much, that you would do in school. I would never want my kids to leave school, though, I'm really for education.

I've never stopped learning.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.