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.
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I always believe that a person can learn so much by just jumping into something and trying to do it rather than having someone else teach you everything.
I think the best thing you can teach a person is how to learn. And once they discover their own individual approach to that - which is inside all of us - then all of a sudden, they've opened up a door of endless resources.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
The teaching thing, the one where I have to impart my knowledge, is probably what comes the least naturally to me because I'm an absorber of things.
We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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.
Much learning does not teach understanding.
Plus, teaching brings home to you very fast that you actually know nothing. I didn't realize that before.
I don't learn so good, no matter how good the teacher is.
I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.
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