Isaac Asimov Quotes

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.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

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 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 think self-education is the greatest and best thing you could ever make.

The best and most important part of every man's education is that which he gives himself.

Education is something that other people do to you. Learning is something you do for yourself.

In Scouting, a boy is encouraged to educate himself instead of being instructed.

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.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

I didn't go to school much, so I taught myself what I knew from reading.

I soon gave up instruction for self-teaching.

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.

There is no greater education than one that is self-driven.

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

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

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

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

The fruit of liberal education is not learning, but the capacity and desire to learn, not knowledge, but power.

At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you'll have to find your inner motivation to seek for new ideas on your own.

I do not much believe in education. Each person ought to be his or her own model, however frightful that may be.

All that a university or final highest school. can do for us is still but what the first school began doing--teach us to read. We learn to read in various languages, in various sciences; we learn the alphabet and letters of all manner of books. But the place where we are to get knowledge, even theoretic knowledge, is the books themselves. It depends on what we read, after all manner of professors have done their best for us. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

I try never to let my schooling get in the way of my education.