Ida Rentoul Outhwaite Quotes

I soon gave up instruction for self-teaching.

Looking back, I realise it wasn't only gym I dreaded at school. Every class was a torment. It wasn't knowledge I objected to but instruction. Why couldn't they just tell us what books to read and leave us to get on and read them?

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

Learning in our family was entirely self-directed.

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.

To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.

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

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

I believe that whenever I want to learn something I can learn it much better and faster by myself if I'm motivated to learn it as opposed to kind of doing it in more a standard, institutionalized way.

Many people who excel are self-taught.

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.

I like to learn on my own.

I never had a teacher, and I never had lessons, other than hard Nature itself.

Almost everything I've been paid to do was something that was largely self-taught.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

I know how to learn anything I want to learn. I absolutely know that I could learn how to fly the space shuttle because someone else knows how to fly it, and they put it in a book. Give me the book, and I do not need somebody to stand up in front of the class.

There's so much free material on the Internet you can learn from, and some people are pure self-starters: they pick up computers and teach themselves everything. Certainly there are millions of people like that. But at the same time, I think it's a pretty small percentage of the population.

I never went to university. I'm self-educated. I didn't go because I was too impatient, too arrogant.