Dr. Seuss Quotes

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.

I soon gave up instruction for self-teaching.

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

I like to learn on my own.

Learning in our family was entirely self-directed.

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.

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

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.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Many people who excel are self-taught.

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

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.

Almost everything I've been paid to do was something that was largely self-taught.

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.

No matter how much I admire our schools, I know that no university exists that can provide an education; what a university can provide is an outline, to give the learner a direction and guidance. The rest one has to do for oneself.

I had no training in research as such, and as a consequence, I am, in a sense, self-taught.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

I'm not a trained actor. I'm someone who is autodidactic and learned on my own.