Independent Learning Quotes

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.

Once you have learned to ask questions - relevant and appropriate and substantial questions - you have learned how to learn and no one can keep you from learning whatever you want or need to know.

Only the autodidacts are free.

Don’t believe everything the professors tell you. Get your own information on your own terms.

Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.

In Scouting, a boy is encouraged to educate himself instead of being instructed.

Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don't learn you don't know.

I always believe that a person can learn so much by just jumping into something and trying to do it rather than having someone else teach you everything.

The only purpose of education is to teach a student how to live his life-by developing his mind and equipping him to deal with reality. The training he needs is theoretical, i.e., conceptual. He has to be taught to think, to understand, to integrate, to prove. He has to be taught the essentials of the knowledge discovered in the past-and he has to be equipped to acquire further knowledge by his own effort.

A free curiosity is more effective in learning than a rigid discipline.

It is one thing to remember, another to know. To remember is to safeguard something entrusted to the memory. But to know is to make each thing one's own, not depend on the text and always to look back to the teacher. "Zeno said this, Cleanthes said this." Let there be space between you and the book.

The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'

To a child, and to an adult, too, what you discover by yourself, or what you think you discover by yourself, is what stays.

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

A successful day for me is when I teach people something. They become enlightened by an idea and learn how to think about it, so that later on when someone says, "Tell me about x, y, z," they don't have to say, "I know this because Tyson told me." No, they'll say, "Here's why it's true because I know and understand it."

If you can light the spark of curiosity in a child, they will learn without any further assistance.

Self-study, in a sense of learning by yourself without anybody teaching you anything, has an enormous value.

At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you'll have to find your inner motivation to seek for new ideas on your own.

People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves.

I can't remember ever being told how to ride.

Reading might not be the way that the child engages with the world, but it should be something that they all learn how to do, and that they get to have for themselves, as opposed to somebody telling them what to do and how to do it.

I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time.

Learning in our family was entirely self-directed.

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.

There is no need of a teacher for those who know how to think.