Elayne Boosler Quotes

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

My thirst for knowledge and experience comes from the idea that once you learned something, it was time to learn something else. I missed out on a formal educational process, so I'm making up for that.

The brainy class is made up of individuals who think for themselves and beyond formal education are continuous learners who tend to be self-taught.

I never stop reading. I read everything, and I read every day. If you never read anything, be curious. Curiosity is the true foundation of education, reading things that we've factually already agreed on, and I love reading books. With that said, it's more important that you ask the question 'why.'

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

A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian!

The limits on your enlightenment come not from the age you stopped going to school but from the age you stopped being curious.

He who leaves school, knowing little, but with a longing for knowledge, will go farther than one who quits, knowing many things, but not caring to learn more.

When it came to formal classes, I was a slacker. But I've always been a diligent autodidact and can teach myself virtually any subject if I have a serious interest in it.

I'm a nerd; I enjoy educating myself and learning things.

I see all these students, and I admire them - they're trying to learn something, they go to school, they do film school, they go on shoots, they help. I'm sure they learn a lot, and some of them, it makes them aware of what they wish to do. I was - that's the way I was - autodidact.

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

To be wise is to be eternally curious.

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

I have written 240 books on a wide variety of topics. . . . Some of it I based on education I received in my school, but most of it was backed by other ways of learning - chiefly in the books I obtained in the public library.

Stay curious, keep learning and keep growing. And always strive to be more interested than interesting.

What I believe is that all clear-minded people should remain two things throughout their lifetimes: Curious and teachable.

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

I've had training in electronics engineering, of all things, and in languages. But I've never taken any degree, something I share with Lewis Mumford, I think.

A generous and elevated mind is distinguished by nothing more certainly than an eminent degree of curiosity.

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

Develop into a lifelong self-learner through voracious reading; cultivate curiosity and strive to become a little wiser every day.

As a writer, politician, scientist, and businessman, [Ben] Franklin had few equals among the educated of his day-though he left school at ten. (...)Boys like Andrew Carnegie who begged his mother not to send him to school and was well on his way to immortality and fortune at the age of thirteen, would be referred today for psychological counseling; Thomas Edison would find himself in Special Ed until his peculiar genius had been sufficiently tamed.

Be for ever a student. He and he alone is an old man who feels that he has learnt enough and has need for no more knowledge.

Self-education is a continuing source of pleasure to me, for the more I know, the fuller my life is and the better I appreciate my own existence