Noam Chomsky Quotes

Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.

I plan on doing a lot more work on my own, and discovering and doing more.

I soon gave up instruction for self-teaching.

I'm entirely self-taught, which I think is both a blessing and a curse.

Only the autodidacts are free.

When a child is given a little leeway, he will at once shout, "I want to do it!" But in our schools, which have an environment adapted to children's needs, they say, "Help me to do it alone." And these words reveal their inner needs.

I don't want problems solved for me. I want the fishing rod, not the fish.

I have amazing collaborators as well, but I want to learn more and be a self-contained unit.

People need new tools to work with rather than new tools that work for them.

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.

In Scouting, a boy is encouraged to educate himself instead of being instructed.

By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way.

The important thing is to concentrate upon what you can do - by yourself, upon your own initiative.

What would life be like if everybody insisted you must have actually built such-and-such a thing by yourself? I'd be an old man and have nothing to show for the aging.

It's not what your parents give you. It's what you do with your own stuff.

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.

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

You have to find it. No one else can find it for you.

There are two kinds of people: the ones who need to be told, and the ones who figure it out all by themselves.

No one, and no mind, was ever emancipated by merely being left alone.

If people want to find things, they find them themselves.

I just kind of do my own thing, which has made me feel like a better player, a better pro because I'm in control of it. I don't have anybody who is pushing me to do something - I'm pushing myself.

In college, the coaching staff does more work with you individually. But at the next level, you have to do it all by yourself.

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.

The experiences you gain by doing something solo - you have such a great work effort there as well, one we all have now - we can all bring it back to the group.