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| Barockhaus (Library) Görlitz, Germany |
"What you learn in classrooms is irrelevant, and sometimes even worthless -- you must take responsibility for your own education. ...
"[M]ore than 90% of my education came on my own. ... That’s a useful skill—teaching yourself. Maybe the most useful ...
"[B]ack when I was a teenager I decided I wanted to possess genuine wisdom. You can laugh at that if you want. The very word wisdom seems tainted nowadays. ... And along with it, I wanted to develop a meaningful philosophy of life. That seemed urgently important to me as a teenager. It still does today. ...
"I spent a lot of time reading -- I mean Orca-sized time blocks.... I read for mind-expansion, not entertainment, and seek out challenging books... This has always been my pattern. If books were my drug, I always was taking the big intense dose that offered the greatest out-of-body experience. ...
"If you’re serious about an education, you should read at least one or two long, challenging books each year. When other people pick up light beach reading for the summer, you ought to grab Thucydides or Gibbon or Musil or Woolf or Schopenhauer.
"When I was 18, I tackled War and Peace. When I was 19, I did Don Quixote. The next year, I read The Brothers Karamazov, and after that it was Moby Dick and The Tale of Genji and The Magic Mountain. And I’ve kept doing this for decades.
"The cumulative impact of this is life-changing...."~ Ted Gioia, from his post 'My Lifetime Reading Plan'
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