Self-Directed Learning Quotes

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

Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. A successful business owner never stops learning. They educate themselves on the things they need to learn, and they never stop growing. They never arrive at a certain point and think, ahhh... now I don't need to learn anymore.

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.

By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education. Psychologist Herbert Gerjuoy of the Human Resources Research Organization phrases it simply: 'The new education must teach the individual how to classify and reclassify information, how to evaluate its veracity, how to change categories when necessary, how to move from the concrete to the abstract and back, how to look at problems from a new direction — how to teach himself. Tomorrow's illiterate will not be the man who can't read; he will be the man who has not learned how to learn.'

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

Only the autodidacts are free.

From my grandfather's father, I learned to dispense with attendance at public schools, and to enjoy good teachers at home, and to recognize that on such things money should be eagerly spent.

Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.

One of the brilliant things I realised after I'd left school is that there are so many ways you can learn. I do this best on the job.

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

School failed me, and I failed the school. It bored me. The teachers behaved like Feldwebel (sergeants). I wanted to learn what I wanted to know, but they wanted me to learn for the exam. What I hated most was the competitive system there, and especially sports. Because of this, I wasn't worth anything, and several times they suggested I leave.

I've never been a big believer in formal education.

You know, I went to Oberlin. At that time, grades were - you elected to have them or not. It was all of that era where grades were out the window. But I did very well in school. I didn't really study the arts; I practiced the arts.

When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get 'Calculus for the Practical Man.' By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it.

The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.

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

One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.

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

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

I love to read, and so I've been reading everything I can, not intensely, but I love to read so I read "Origin of Species" by Darwin and I can't make head or tail of E=MC squared by Einstein, but I try to baffle my way through that.

A teacher is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself.

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

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.

There is unspeakable pleasure attending the life of a voluntary student.