Self education can be a bulwark against the boredom of retirement. More importantly, in todays dynamic world, without continuing education one is quickly pushed into the category of the relatively unlearned. Self-education involves thinking, and thinking is hard work.
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In my observation, the individual has reached his ceiling when he stops his self-education. The competent ones lift their ceilings day by day through self-education. Those who are 'drop-outs' find their ceilings constantly getting lower.Lavor K. Chaffin
College graduates who have kept on with self-education generally are the ones who reap the richest harvests of material rewards, and even more important, the great intangible satisfactions of life.
Lavor K. Chaffin
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