Self education

1. “My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but it prevented from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.” – George Bernard Shaw
2. “School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unimaginable tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, brutal violations of common sense and common decency.  It doesn’t take a reasonably bright boy long to discover that most of what is rammed into him is nonsense, and that no one really cares very much whether he learns it or not.” – H.L. Mencken
3. “I am always ready to learn, but I do not always like to be taught.” –  Winston Churchill
4. “I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.” – Eartha Kitt
5. “You learn something every day if you pay attention.” – Ray LeBlond, importance of self education quotes
6. “All men who have turned out worth anything has had the chief hand in their own education.” – Sir Walter Scott
7.  “Schooling, instead of encouraging the asking of questions, too often discourages it.” – Madeleine L’Engle
8.  “If you meet at dinner a man who has spent his life in educating himself – a rare type in our time … you rise from table richer, and conscious that a high ideal has for a moment touched and sanctified your days. But Oh! my dear Ernest, to sit next to a man who has spent his life in trying to educate others! What a dreadful experience that is!”- Oscar Wilde“If you meet at dinner a man who has spent his life in educating himself – a rare type in our time … you rise from table richer, and conscious that a high ideal has for a moment touched and sanctified your days. But Oh! my dear Ernest, to sit next to a man who has spent his life in trying to educate others! What a dreadful experience that is!”- Oscar Wilde
9.  “None of the world’s problems will have a solution until the world’s individuals become thoroughly self-educated.” – Buckminster Fuller
10. “Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.”- Leonardo da Vinci
11. “Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.” – Eugene S. Wilson
12. “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.” – Joseph Brodsky
13. “I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.” – Albert Einstein
14. “It is sometimes said that when the student is ready the teacher appears.  It seems more likely that we are always in the presence of teachers, and at different stages in our development we become open to their teachings.” – Robert Kull, Solitude, self education quotes for students
15. “The Taliban could take our pens and books, but they couldn’t stop our minds from thinking.” – Malala Yousafzai