Seth Godin Quotes

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

The mark of higher education isn't the knowledge you accumulate in your head. It's the skills you gain about 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 never let schooling interfere with my education.

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

The brainy class is made up of individuals who think for themselves and beyond formal education are continuous learners who tend to be self-taught.

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

I think the best thing you can teach a person is how to learn. And once they discover their own individual approach to that - which is inside all of us - then all of a sudden, they've opened up a door of endless resources.

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

Consider the track record of your naysayers. How many dreams have they successfully brought into this world?

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

So long as one's just dreaming about what to do, one can soar like an eagle and move mountains, it seems, but as soon as one starts doing it one gets worn out and tired.

Pursuing your dreams involves you accepting where you want to go. Don't allow anybody else to talk you out of things or discourage you from doing whatever you want to do. You can hold on to your dream and never pursue it or you can start pursuing it. If you can see it, or if you can envision it... it can happen.

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

Perhaps the most fundamental value of a liberal education is that it makes life more interesting. It allows you to think things which do not occur to the less learned ... it makes it less likely that you will be bored with life.

By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education. Psychologist Herbert Gerjuoy of the Human Resources Research Organization phrases it simply: 'The new education must teach the individual how to classify and reclassify information, how to evaluate its veracity, how to change categories when necessary, how to move from the concrete to the abstract and back, how to look at problems from a new direction — how to teach himself. Tomorrow's illiterate will not be the man who can't read; he will be the man who has not learned how to learn.'

Stop sharing your dreams with people who try to hold you back, even if they're your parents.

There is unspeakable pleasure attending the life of a voluntary student.

Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.

Many adults, whether consciously or unconsciously, find it beneath their adult dignity to do anything as childish as read a book, think a thought, or get an idea. Adults are rarely embarrased at having forgotten what little algebra or geography they once learned

The purpose of adult education is to help them to learn, not to teach them all you know and thus stop them from learning.

Be for ever a student. He and he alone is an old man who feels that he has learnt enough and has need for no more knowledge.

Self-education is a continuing source of pleasure to me, for the more I know, the fuller my life is and the better I appreciate my own existence

Learning is definitely not mere imitation, nor is it the ability to accumulate and regurgitate fixed knowledge. Learning is a constant process of discovery - a process without end.

When you question what you believe, you leave the world, really, and what the world believes. It puts you in a very interesting position.