Self-Instruction Quotes

Learning in our family was entirely self-directed.

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

Education demands, then, only this: the utilization of the inner powers of the child for his own instruction.

In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by their own natural genius, instructed solely by the example of these beautiful paintings and sculptures of Nature.

For I found myself embarrassed with so many doubts and errors that it seemed to me that the effort to instruct myself had no effect other than th eincreasing discovery of my own ignorance

I like to learn on my own.

"Self-taught, are you?" Julian Castle asked Newt. "Isn't everybody?" Newt inquired. "Very good answer." Castle was respectful.

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

I was always my own teacher.

I taught myself filmmaking on my own.