All I have learned, I learned from books.

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...

I will simply express my strong belief, that that point of self-education which consists in teaching the mind to resist its desires and inclinations, until they are proved to be right, is the most important...

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

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...

Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.

INTERVIEWERYou’re self-educated, aren’t you?BRADBURYYes, I am. I’m completely library educated. I’ve never been to college. I went down to the library when I was in grade school in Waukegan, and in high school in Los...

There is a big difference between school education and self-education. School education has some limits to it, but self-education doesn’t. So in order to unleash your greatest potential in life, you must effectively combine the...

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...

There is always a strong need for self-education during and after school education. Education is a never-ending process of intellectual growth.

Take time to improve your knowledge and skills so that you can put a premium on yourself. You don’t have to be content in being simply a good doer if you can also become a...

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

School education alone doesn’t make one educated. It takes years of self-education from factual resources, properly interpreted experiences in life, and observations before one could become very educated.

Self-education is one of the strongest pillars in the mind of every great person because it is an ongoing process that never ends.

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

It is very important to spend two to three hours each day to self-educate yourself on different areas of life, because school education alone is far from being enough.