#self-education

"All I have learned, I learned from books."

"The path of light is the quest for knowledge."

"I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years."

"Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality."

"Do not be afraid ask questions."

"No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete."

"Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is."

"The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret."

"When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling."

"Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read."