Learning Independence Quotes

Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person.

The best schools tend to have the best teachers, not to mention parents who supervise homework, so there is less need for self-organised learning. But where a child comes from a less supportive home environment, where there are family tensions perhaps, their schoolwork can suffer. They need to be taught to think and study for themselves.

She got on with her education. In her opinion, school kept on trying to interfere with it.

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

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

There is far too much of the feeding-bottle in education and young people ought to be supplied with good intellectual food and then left to help themselves.

Children are like men, the experience of others does not help them.