Many people who excel are self-taught.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.
As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self-understanding, and this is something that can't be taught.
Too often we see that teachers and educational administrators feel threatened by self-organized learning. They, therefore, think it is not learning at all.
Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.
A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.
I used to be really insecure about my self-education. I'm definitely always learning. But there's many ways to learn. There are many, many ways to always be a learner.
When you're working in front of an audience, you have incentive to excel.
There is no greater education than one that is self-driven.
Ever since I was a child, I wanted to excel in everything.
To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.