Robert Henri Quotes

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.

My parents would say to me, 'You can teach yourself anything better than someone else can teach it to you.' That was the whole ethos of my family.

I think self-education is the greatest and best thing you could ever make.

I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.

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.

I was always my own teacher.

I was my own teacher and pupil, in a comradeship so firm and persevering that the most trying incidents of my life served only to strengthen the union.

Nobody gives you an education. If you want one, you have to take it.

The rules are now clear: no one is going to inform you, but it's easier than ever to inform yourself.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

I created myself. I have taught myself so much.

I didn't go to school much, so I taught myself what I knew from reading.

I soon gave up instruction for self-teaching.

Once again, I arrived at my usual conclusion: one must educate oneself.

Every person of learning is finally his own teacher.

If you don't educate yourself, this is an area of your life that it is a game.

First let a man teach himself, and then he will be taught by others.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

Kids are smart. Knowledge is power. Let them figure things out. Don't turn into that grown-up who they won't come to.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

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

To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.

Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.

To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.

I learned easily and had time to follow my inclination for sports (light athletics and skiing) and chemistry, which I taught myself by reading all textbooks I could get.