Mark Twain Quotes

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.

I soon gave up instruction for self-teaching.

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

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

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

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

I had no training in research as such, and as a consequence, I am, in a sense, self-taught.

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

There is no greater education than one that is self-driven.

No matter how much I admire our schools, I know that no university exists that can provide an education; what a university can provide is an outline, to give the learner a direction and guidance. The rest one has to do for oneself.

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

All education must be self-education.

The formal education that I received made little sense to me.

Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.

When you home study, you get a better education. I basically got to teach myself. Being naturally able to make my own opinions about the schoolwork I had to deal with, instead of being instructed under the tutelage of the teacher, was really nice academically.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.

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

I didn't go to school much, so I taught myself what I knew from reading.

I was learning things in school rather than learning how to teach myself, which is what you have to do in life, so I just abandoned it and did ceramics for a year and a half.

Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.

I educated myself. To me, school was boring.

I've never been a big believer in formal education.

Many people who excel are self-taught.