Mahatma Gandhi 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

I created myself. I have taught myself so much.

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

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

My parents would say to me, 'You can teach yourself anything better than someone else can teach it to you.' That was the whole ethos of my family.

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

I was my own teacher and pupil, in a comradeship so firm and persevering that the most trying incidents of my life served only to strengthen the union.

I mean, it's the life lessons that I suppose you learn that nobody gets a free ride and that you do the best you can with the means that you can and try to open yourself to as much knowledge and all that that you can.

The doer alone learneth.

If we don't empower ourselves with knowledge, then we're gonna be led down a garden path.

To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.

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

The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.

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

I learned from my parents the idea that, if you are devoted enough and you want to study something enough, you can really teach yourself anything.

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

Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts.

The content of most textbooks is perishable, but the tools of self-directedness serve one well over time.