Edward Gibbon Quotes

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

The better part of every man's education is that which he gives himself.

All education must be self-education.

I try never to let my schooling get in the way of my education.

I soon gave up instruction for self-teaching.

I educated myself. To me, school was boring.

School seemed unimportant, since I learned so much more on my own.

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.

There's a lot out there for me to learn that isn't in college, so I think it's fine for me if I don't go yet.

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

I am your original autodidact.

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.

You learn all the best stuff in life after you leave school.

I'm entirely self-taught, which I think is both a blessing and a curse.

I hate the the word 'disempower,' because it seems kind of cliche, but I do think that we take people's ability to self-teach away by creating this idea that that someone else has to do this for you, that you have to take a course, you have to do it in some formal way.

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

Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.

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.

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.

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