The Museum is not meant for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for the mere slave of a routine of self-education to stuff himself with every sort of incongruous intellectual food in one indigestible meal. . .
Quotes about self-education (8 Quotes)
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.
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 childs coloring book. You must fill in the colors yourself.
Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. If you keep your eyes open as you travel around, you realize we are destroying this planet.
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.
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
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.