Isaac Asimov Quotes about Learning

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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.

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.

Isaac Asimov

Believe, Learning, School

Isaac Asimov (1975). “Science Past, Science Future”, Doubleday Books

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

Isaac Asimov

True Friend, Business, Learning

True literacy is becoming an arcane art, and the nation is steadily "dumbing down."

Isaac Asimov

Education, Art, Learning

"It's Been a Good Life".

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

Isaac Asimov

Learning, Accepting, Theory

I'm gradually managing to cram my mind more and more full of things. I've got this beautiful mind and it's going to die, and it'll all be gone. And then I say, not in my case. Every idea I've ever had I've written down, and it's all there on paper. And I won't be gone; it'll be there.

Isaac Asimov

Beautiful, Learning, Science

Isaac Asimov, Carl Howard Freedman (2005). “Conversations with Isaac Asimov”, p.139, Univ. Press of Mississippi