Self-Motivated Learning Quotes

Only the autodidacts are free.

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

Actually, all education is self-education. A teacher is only a guide, to point out the way, and no school, no matter how excellent, can give you education. What you receive is like the outlines in a child’s coloring book. You must fill in the colors yourself.

From the freedom to explore comes the joy of learning. From knowledge acquired by personal initiative arises the desire for more knowledge. And from mastery of the novel and beautiful world awaiting every child comes self-confidence.

I always like to learn, but I don't always like to be taught.

Education is what people do to you. Learning is what you do to yourself. Focus on being connected, always learning, fully aware and super present.

I do not much believe in education. Each person ought to be his or her own model, however frightful that may be.

"Self-taught, are you?" Julian Castle asked Newt. "Isn't everybody?" Newt inquired. "Very good answer." Castle was respectful.

The fundamental basis of education must always remain that one must act for oneself. That is clear. One must act for him or herself.

If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning.

Nothing important can be taught, only learned.

Every person of learning is finally his own teacher.

You can learn so much just by doing, not by listening to anybody.

(I was) my own teacher and pupil, and thanks to the efforts of both, they were not discontented with each other.

I soon gave up instruction for self-teaching.

In my opinion instruction is very purposeless for such individuals who do no want merely to collect a mass of knowledge, but are mainly interested in exercising (training) their own powers. One doesn't need to grasp such a one by the hand and lead him to the goal, but only from time to time give him suggestions, in order that he may reach it himself in the shortest way.

I love learning, but hate being taught.

You see, if you take pains and learn in order to get a reward, the work will seem hard; but when you work... if you love your work, you will find your reward in that.

What I learned on my own I still remember

I knew I had to find my own way of teaching.

It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don't want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.

Education by choice, with its marvelous motivating psychology of desire for truth, will make life ever cleaner and happier, more rhythmical and artistic.

Education will not come of itself; it will never come unless you seek it; it will not come unless you take the first steps which lead to it; but, taking these steps, every man can acquire it.

The secret of sound education is to get each pupil to learn for himself, instead of instructing him by driving knowledge into him on a stereotyped system.