Isaac Asimov Quotes About School

Quotes about: School

• 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

• Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly.

  Isaac Asimov

  Believe, Home, School

  "The Blind Who Would Lead". "The Roving Mind". Book by Isaac Asimov, 1983.

• I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I got out of the public library. For an impoverished child whose family could not afford to buy books, the library was the open door to wonder and achievement, and I can never be sufficiently grateful that I had the wit to charge through that door and make the most of it.

  Isaac Asimov

  Children, Real, Educational

  Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.54, Bantam

• I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I got out of the public library.

  Isaac Asimov

  Real, School, Library

  Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.54, Bantam

• Early in my school career, I turned out to be an incorrigible disciplinary problem. I could understand what the teacher was saying as fast as she could say it, I found time hanging heavy, so I would occasionally talk to my neighbor. That was my great crime, I talked in school.

  Isaac Asimov

  Teacher, School, Science

  Isaac Asimov (2002). “It's Been a Good Life”, Pyr Books

• I have written 240 books on a wide variety of topics. . . . Some of it I based on education I received in my school, but most of it was backed by other ways of learning - chiefly in the books I obtained in the public library.

  Isaac Asimov

  Book, Reading, School

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