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

You are never too old to learn more than you already know and to become able to do more than you already can.

Many years later he looked through one of my books and said, "How did you learn all this, Isaac?""From you, Pappa", I said."From me? I don't know any of this"."You didn't have to, Pappa", I said. "You valued learning and you taught me to value it. Once I learned to value it, the rest came without trouble.

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. The only function of a school is to make self-education easier; failing that, it does nothing.

It's not so much what you have to learn if you accept weird theories, it's what you have to UNlearn.