Plato Quotes

Lessons are not given, they are taken.

Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.

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

Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his own education.

Philosophers have long conceded, however, that every man has two educators: 'that which is given to him, and the other that which he gives himself. Of the two kinds the latter is by far the more desirable. Indeed all that is most worthy in man he must work out and conquer for himself. It is that which constitutes our real and best nourishment. What we are merely taught seldom nourishes the mind like that which we teach ourselves.

Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self-understanding, and this is something that can't be taught.

Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.

For me, learning is a continuous process and an all-inclusive one - reading a book, learning a musical instrument or learning the martial art called taekwondo. Teach myself something new - that's my prayer.

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

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

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

We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.

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 think a lot of people have grown up with the idea that they can't learn things themselves. They think they need an institution to provide them with knowledge and teach them how to do things. I couldn't disagree more.

I do think we have collectively begun to conflate the institutions of education for education itself. Education is an individual's pursuit of understanding and has a lot of implications for that person, for the kind of person that they are.

You learn best by reading a lot and writing a lot, and the most valuable lessons of all are the ones you teach yourself.

Actually, all education is self-education. A teacher is only a guide, to point out the way, and no school, no matter how excellent, can give you education. What you receive is like the outlines in a child’s coloring book. You must fill in the colors yourself.

One of the main goals of self-education is to eradicate that vanity in us without which we would never have been educated.

All education is self-discovery.

To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.

I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.