Carl Friedrich Gauss Quotes

Film school is a complete con, because the information is there if you want it.

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

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.

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.

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

Every person of learning is finally his own teacher.

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

This great Western institution, the university, dominates the world today more than any other institution: more than the church, more than the government, more than all other institutions. All the leaders of government are graduates of universities, or at least of secondary schools or colleges whose administrators and teachers are themselves graduates of universities….professionals—doctors, engineers, lawyers, etc. have all passed through the mill of the secondary school, the college and the university. And the men of the media are university trained

As one who has taught mathematics at all levels of university instruction, I am well aware of the negative attitude of so many students toward the subject. There are many reasons for this, one of them no doubt being the esoteric, dry way in which we teach the subject. We tend to overwhelm our students with formulas, definitions, theorems, and proofs, but we seldom mention the historical evolution of these facts, leaving the impression that these facts were handed to us, like the Ten Commandments, by some divine authority.

If I could help educate our children at an institution for higher learning, that would be a noble thing.

To be honest, I don't listen to much music! I've been so engrossed in it my whole life that when I drive around in my car, I'll listen to college lectures on philosophy and literature and world history, things like that, to kind of catch up on the college experience I missed.

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 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.

It is a monstrous thing to force a child to learn Latin or Greek or mathematics on the ground that they are an indispensable gymnastic for the mental powers. It would be monstrous even if it were true.

I am basically a pretty good autodidact. I can teach myself things.

Once again, I arrived at my usual conclusion: one must educate oneself.

The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught.

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in. That every man may receive at least a moderate education...appears to be an object of vital importance...

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

I think self-education is the greatest and best thing you could ever make.

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

A college degree does not lessen the length of your ears; it only conceals it.

To savages it would seem preposterous to seek out a place where nothing but learning was going on in order that one might learn.