Ray Bradbury Quotes

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

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

College isn't the only answer. Reading is a college that you can and should attend all your life.

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 have spent my whole life educating myself.

I had never attended high school, but I was fairly well read.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

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

I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined.

I educated myself. To me, school was boring.

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

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.

I went to college, but I learned to write by reading - and writing.

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.

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

I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

I'm a good learner. I am fond of reading and educating myself all the time.

I'm just encouraging students to read. It's something you can do daily. It's something you can do whether you're sitting at home reading a newspaper or ordering something online. It's endless.

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

When I graduated from high school I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library 3 days a week for 10 years.

I like learning new stuff, and continuing to educate myself as best I can.

You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.

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.

My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.