You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
I think the ability to focus is a thread that runs through so-called successful people. And that's something that can be developed. It can be self-taught.
No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
Many people who excel are self-taught.
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.
A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.
We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.
I am a self-taught guitarist. I just try to piece together passages that have some melodic value!
Over the years my mom has become a self-taught Biblical scholar.
I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.
Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.
Being self-taught is no disgrace; but being self-certified is another matter.
I'm mostly self-taught. I didn't learn much in school.
In terms of formal education, I may somewhat lacking. I never finished school. I am a self-taught entrepreneur, that's the best kind there is, trust me
The self taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known if he had worked under teachers, and besides, he brags, and is the means of fooling other thoughtless people into going and doing as he himself has done.
None of us older writers had gone through such a school. We are all self-taught. And, of course, there is always, in such a school, the danger of goose-stepping, uniformed ranks. But the Serapion Brethren have already, it seems to me, outgrown this danger. Each of them has his own individuality and his own handwriting. The common thing they have derived from the studio is the art of writing with ninety-proof ink, the art of eliminating everything that is superfluous, which is, perhaps, more difficult than writing.
An artist who is self-taught is taught by a very ignorant person indeed.
I am self taught. My dad threw me in with a drum set at the age of four and I figured it out!
I had no contact with my contemporaries in the photographic field, nor even knowledge of their work. So I was influenced by no-one and there were no short cuts for me. I was self-taught the hard way, by trial and error.
I consider myself something of a self-taught anthropologist.
All great contemporary artists, schooled or not, are essentially self-taught and are de-skilling like crazy.
I was in a band in high school and college and I always had a love for music, but I didn't go to a conservatory or anything like that. I was fairly self-taught.
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