"President Brigham Young was a learner.  Althought President Young only had 11 days of formal schooling, he understood the need for learning both the wisdom of God and the things of the world.  He was a furniture maker, a missionary, a colonizer, a governor, and the Lord's prophet...

"Perhaps President Young was such a consummate learner precisely because he was not constrained unduly by the arbitrary boundaries so often imposed through the structures and process of formal education.  He clearly learned to love learning."

- Learning to Love Learning by Elder David A. Bednar, February 2010 Ensign