Dean Kamen Quotes

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

Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.

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

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

Science and math are hard for everybody, and it's usually not a matter or being born gifted at it or not. It's hard work, but it can be a lot of fun!

I have the drive to spend five hours a day to teach myself a skill.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

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.

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.

I'm always studying and I've been doing it for a long time now.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages them in encouraging dialogues, constantly checking for understanding and growth.

The greatest teacher I know is the job itself.

I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher.

Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.

All learning is in the learner, not in the teacher.

Education is not something where you just tip your head and they pour it in your ear. You’ve got to want it.

It is important for children to learn, whether they want to pursue music or any other field.

I think the only value of being in school is that everything you do should be a problem that needs to be solved. Everything should be a challenge.

It's good to have a good teacher, but you always need a pretty good student.

It doesn't matter if you want to be a teacher, an astronaut, or a reggaeton singer, you need to study.

What is education but a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn?

My aim in homeschooling is to give my children the ability to be an adult learner, a skill set that will last the rest of their lives.

I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.

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