Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Quotes

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.

I can always see what I've done wrong. I'm always learning. I'm the perennial student.

Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.

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

I used to be really insecure about my self-education. I'm definitely always learning. But there's many ways to learn. There are many, many ways to always be a learner.

I have spent my whole life educating myself.

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

I don't honestly have the time or energy to support anybody else's cause but my own, which is self-expression. So I guess, if I had a cause, it would be education.

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'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.

When you home study, you get a better education. I basically got to teach myself. Being naturally able to make my own opinions about the schoolwork I had to deal with, instead of being instructed under the tutelage of the teacher, was really nice academically.

You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.

I don't regret not going to college. Students learn up to the age of 21, then stop. I'll always be learning - the things that really matter in life. How to sign on, how to get free food, how to be streetwise.

I believe that any type of education can be great, but an education about ourselves can create something wonderful. I am a comedian, but people have called me a motivational speaker. I don't really consider myself that at all.

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.

Always educate yourself.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

Everybody's a work in progress. I'm a work in progress. I mean, I've never arrived... I'm still learning all the time.

Anyone can be self-educated if they find the loose end of something to care about passionately.

I soon gave up instruction for self-teaching.

College isn't the only answer. Reading is a college that you can and should attend all your life.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.