Cesare Pavese Quotes

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

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

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

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his own education.

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've never stopped learning.

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.

Think new thoughts. Grab life with both hands, take opportunities you have, & create the ones you need.

For me, learning is a continuous process and an all-inclusive one - reading a book, learning a musical instrument or learning the martial art called taekwondo. Teach myself something new - that's my prayer.

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

There are some things you can give another person, and some things you cannot give him, except as he is willing to reach out and take them, and pay the price of making them a part of himself. This principle applies to studying, to developing talents, to absorbing knowledge, to acquiring skills, and to the learning of all the lessons of life.

You get given an opportunity, and that is the jumping board; from there you have to build your own path.

I have always been a learner because I knew nothing.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.

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 doer alone learneth.

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

One of the things I teach my children is that I have always invested in myself, and I have never stopped learning, never stopped growing.

The willingness to keep learning is, I think, the most important thing about trying to be good at anything. You never want to stop learning.

We can learn something new anytime we believe we can.

I guess I'm just an open-hearted, fair, good person. I try to encourage people to be their best and look inside themselves and find out what they are passionate about and expand on that and enjoy life.

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.