Self-Guided Learning Quotes

I'm lucky that I have a platform that I can answer my own questions.

You try to get yourself into a situation where you only have to answer to yourself, where you can ask advice of people and work with your peers and mentors and things to try to do the best job that you can possibly do.

Learning in our family was entirely self-directed.

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

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.

The talent that has to be learned is finding out what someone's passion is and setting them up to realize that. You don't get the best work from people if you're guiding them versus them guiding themselves.

Begin by instructing yourself, then you will receive instruction from others.

Learn of the skillful; he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master.

Anyone can be self-educated if they find the loose end of something to care about passionately.

I do not much believe in education. Each person ought to be his or her own model, however frightful that may be.

I like to learn on my own.

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

No voice teacher can be all things to all people. You have to gain information from whatever sources you can. You have to listen.

I don't like books that seem to want to teach me things. Which is not to say that one doesn't learn from books - but you do your own learning in your own way.

(I was) my own teacher and pupil, and thanks to the efforts of both, they were not discontented with each other.

If you're looking for self-help, why would you read a book written by somebody else?

I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.

I soon gave up instruction for self-teaching.

You can learn so much just by doing, not by listening to anybody.

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

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

So you have to be your own teacher and your own disciple, and there is no teacher outside, no saviour, no master; you yourself have to change, and therefore you have to learn to observe, to know yourself. This learning about yourself is a fascinating and joyous business.

I never had a teacher, and I never had lessons, other than hard Nature itself.

I knew I had to find my own way of teaching.

What would happen if we finally succeeded in following the directions of nature and recognized that the great secret of education lies hidden in the maxim, 'Do not educate'?