Loren Eiseley Quotes

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

The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom.

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

I educated myself. To me, school was boring.

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

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

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.

All education must be self-education.

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

No one is ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself. The external teacher offers only the suggestion, which arouses the internal teacher, who helps us to understand things.

Supposing I said there was a planet without schools or teachers, where study was unknown, and yet the inhabitants -- doing nothing but live and walk about -- came to know all things, to carry in their minds the whole of learning; would you not think I was romancing? Well, just this, which seems so fanciful as to be nothing but the invention of a fertile imagination, is a reality. It is the child's way of learning.

Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.

Education is what you learn after you leave school.

I was learning things in school rather than learning how to teach myself, which is what you have to do in life, so I just abandoned it and did ceramics for a year and a half.

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.

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

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

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.

Are any of us self-taught? It just means I didn't go to school for it. But you do have teachers. You have mentors.

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.

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. The only function of a school is to make self-education easier; failing that, it does nothing.

Education is what you must acquire without any interference from your schooling.

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.