Thora Birch Quotes

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

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

Being home schooled is awesome because you can make your own schedule, so as far as time management, it's up to you how much you get done and when you get it done. It's all got to get done; how you do it is up to you.

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

Looking back, I realise it wasn't only gym I dreaded at school. Every class was a torment. It wasn't knowledge I objected to but instruction. Why couldn't they just tell us what books to read and leave us to get on and read them?

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

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

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 prefer home-schooling because you can work at your own pace and go towards more what you're interested in, whether it be history or geography or math.

I soon gave up instruction for self-teaching.

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

My teachers helped guide and motivate me; but the responsibility of learning was left with me, an approach to learning which was later reinforced by my experiences at Amherst.

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

I like to learn on my own.

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.

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 would argue that education, actual learning - it is hard work. It's very personal. Your parents don't teach you anything. Your teachers don't teach you anything. The government doesn't teach you anything. You read it. You don't understand it; you read it again. You break a pencil and read it again.

Being homeschooled for half of my life allowed me to choose my own curriculum and find things I really enjoy, and that's kind of inspired me. I've always been intrigued in or interested in the topics I've been covering.

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.

I preferred to study those subjects that were of interest to me.

I believe that whenever I want to learn something I can learn it much better and faster by myself if I'm motivated to learn it as opposed to kind of doing it in more a standard, institutionalized way.

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.

Many people who excel are self-taught.