Robert Henri Quotes

I don't like books that seem to want to teach me things. Which is not to say that one doesn't learn from books - but you do your own learning in your own way.

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

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.

Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.

I soon gave up instruction for self-teaching.

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

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

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

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.

All education is self-discovery.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

For me, learning is a continuous process and an all-inclusive one - reading a book, learning a musical instrument or learning the martial art called taekwondo. Teach myself something new - that's my prayer.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

I used to be really insecure about my self-education. I'm definitely always learning. But there's many ways to learn. There are many, many ways to always be a learner.

I am your original autodidact.

All learning is in the learner, not in the teacher.

I think a lot of people have grown up with the idea that they can't learn things themselves. They think they need an institution to provide them with knowledge and teach them how to do things. I couldn't disagree more.

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

You learn best by reading a lot and writing a lot, and the most valuable lessons of all are the ones you teach yourself.

We think we learn from teachers, and we sometimes do. But the teachers are not always to be found in school or in great laboratories. Sometimes what we learn depends upon our own powers of insight.

The aim of all education is, or should be, to teach people to educate themselves.

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.

Every person has two educations, one which he receives from others, and one, more important, which he gives to himself.

He wanted nothing, for the time being, except to understand .... Without advice, assistance or plan, he began reading an incongruous assortment of books; he would find some passage which he could not understand in one book, and he would get another on that subject .... There was no order in his reading; but there was order in what remained of it in his mind.

First let a man teach himself, and then he will be taught by others.