Stephen King Quotes

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

I am your original autodidact.

I soon gave up instruction for self-teaching.

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

Looking back, I understand that I was teaching myself to write.

He wanted nothing, for the time being, except to understand .... Without advice, assistance or plan, he began reading an incongruous assortment of books; he would find some passage which he could not understand in one book, and he would get another on that subject .... There was no order in his reading; but there was order in what remained of it in his mind.

First let a man teach himself, and then he will be taught by others.

What I learned on my own I still remember

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

I still say the only education worth anything is self-education.

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

The better part of every man's education is that which he gives himself.

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.

Education is something that other people do to you. Learning is something you do for yourself.

Formal learning can teach you a great deal, but many of the essential skills in life are the ones you have to develop on your own.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.

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.

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

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.

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

Learn as much by writing as by reading.

Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.

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

I learned easily and had time to follow my inclination for sports (light athletics and skiing) and chemistry, which I taught myself by reading all textbooks I could get.