Dale Dauten Quotes

I soon gave up instruction for self-teaching.

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

I always believe that a person can learn so much by just jumping into something and trying to do it rather than having someone else teach you everything.

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

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

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.

Actually, all education is self-education. A teacher is only a guide, to point out the way, and no school, no matter how excellent, can give you education. What you receive is like the outlines in a child’s coloring book. You must fill in the colors yourself.

Philosophers have long conceded, however, that every man has two educators: 'that which is given to him, and the other that which he gives himself. Of the two kinds the latter is by far the more desirable. Indeed all that is most worthy in man he must work out and conquer for himself. It is that which constitutes our real and best nourishment. What we are merely taught seldom nourishes the mind like that which we teach ourselves.

Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

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.

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.

You can learn so much just by doing, not by listening to anybody.

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

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.

We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.

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 like to learn on my own.

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

I don't thrive in a school or academic environment, I found out. I thrive better in the world outside the small academy because I find it hard to explain what I'm doing.

I educate myself, but I haven't got the time or patience to enlist myself in a degree course. The world is my school.