Self Education Quotes

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  Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

  Jim Rohn

  Motivational, Success, Education

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jul 04, 2016

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

  Isaac Asimov

  Inspirational, Trust, Education

  Isaac Asimov (1975). “Science Past, Science Future”, Doubleday Books

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• I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.

  Ray Bradbury

  Believe, School, College

  "A Literary Legend Fights for a Local Library" by Jennifer Steinhauer, www.nytimes.com. June 19, 2009.

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• The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

  Alvin Toffler

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

  "Alvin Toffler, author of Future Shock, dies aged 87". www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2016.

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• We need to move beyond the idea that an education is something provided for us, and toward the idea that an education is something that we create for ourselves.

  Stephen Downes

  Educational, Moving, Ideas

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• School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.

  Ivan Illich

  Education, Believe, Learning

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• I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for ones self.

  George Washington Carver

  Educational, Learning, Discovery

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• Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can - there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.

  Sarah Caldwell

  Inspiring, Graduation, Gratitude

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• Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

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• I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.

  Eartha Kitt

  Inspirational, Graduation, Education

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• Education is life itself.

  John Dewey

  Education

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• The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Life, Education, Teacher

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• Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.

  Anne Sullivan Macy

  Education, Children, Learning

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• I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money.

  Ray Bradbury

  Believe, Library, Students

  "A Literary Legend Fights for a Local Library" by Jennifer Steinhauer, www.nytimes.com. June 19, 2009.

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• When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Life, Motivational, Success

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.13, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I learned most, not from those who taught me but from those who talked with me.

  Saint Augustine

  Inspirational, Educational, Homeschooling

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• It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Sad, Education

  "Conducting Meaningful Interpretation: A Field Guide for Success". Book by Alan E. Wilkinson, p. 154, 2006.

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• I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Education, Appreciation

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• Knowledge is recognizing what you know and what you don't.

  Confucius

  Education, Homeschooling, Certain Knowledge

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• Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.

  Ken Robinson

  Education, Motivation, Inspiration

  "Do schools kill creativity?". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February, 2006.

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• It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.

  Albert Einstein

  Education, Mistake, Learning

  Albert Einstein, Stephen W. Hawking (2007). “A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein”, p.346, Running Press

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• Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

  Ezra Pound

  Education, Real, Learning

  ABC of Reading (1934) ch. 8

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• What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.

  Matina Horner

  Education, Women, Challenges

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• Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.

  Ernest Dimnet

  Inspirational, Education, Children

  Ernest Dimnet (1954). “The Art of Thinking”, p.36, Prabhat Prakashan

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