individual learning Quotes

I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.

People all learn things differently, and sometimes imagination isn't considered as useful a tool as it can be in the learning process - especially in school in subjects like math and science.

I wouldn't have wanted anyone to teach me how to write. That's my own taste. I prefer to stumble on it.

The tragic thing about learning from experience is I fear that one can only learn from one's own experience. Other people's - other nations' - experiences simply do not help. They can be imaginatively learned from. But people do not act on other people's experiences.

Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with facts; but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our own minds.

I'm in a class by myself, along with people like Rod Stewart.

Cultivate your garden… Do not depend upon teachers to educate you … follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your own harmony… In the end, education, like happiness, is individual, and must come to us from life and from ourselves. There is no way; each pilgrim must make his own path. "Happiness," said Chamfort, "is not easily won; it is hard to find it in ourselves, and impossible to find it elsewhere.

I am your original autodidact.

No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it.

Everybody learns differently and everybody gets to a certain point from a different direction.

The highest culture is not obtained from the teacher when at school or college, so much as by our ever diligent self-education when we become men.

Every person has two educations, one which he receives from others, and one, more important, which he gives to himself.

No one can teach that which is inside another, each person must find it on his own and find a way to express it.

All education must be self-education.

All education is self-discovery.

The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.

Public libraries are our great teachers and storytellers, and are a vital adjunct to our schools. In this day of standardized and homogenized education, a library offers individual and personalized learning opportunities second to none.

Everyone has their own way of learning.

The problem is that we are living now with the consequences of the others people mistake. It would be nice to make our own and learn from them. That is the art of democracy. That is the art of citizenship.

...primarily the individual is going to study at home.

Profound changes to how children access vast information is yielding new forms of peer-to-peer and individual-guided learning.

What I learned on my own I still remember

Writing, in any sense that matters, cannot be taught. It can only be learned by each separate one of us in his own way, by the use of his own powers of imagination and perception, the ability to learn the lessons he has set for himself.

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.

Everything I do is kind of a lesson, even if I am the only person who learns it.