From the tone of the OP's original post, it sounds like he knows almost nothing, which is a good thing. Means he doesn't have to unlearn anything. Having said that, I would recommend starting with the basics. Start with a wall wart for power and make some ridiculously basic circuits; voltage dividers to understand current and voltage in series and parallel with resistors and capacitors, then turn on and off an LED. Understand bias! Now make a peak detector that turns on the LED at a certain point. Understand that. Now make it flash. Then move up the food chain with basic transistor circuits for switching, then maybe a basic single ended audio amp. From there move to the 555 timers and basic opamp circuits. Onward and upward but always always always UNDERSTAND what came before it. Electronics has a habit of catching up with gaps in knowledge with a vengeance.
I'm not saying project kits are bad but personally I think they teach you more how to read a schematic and connect the dots. Most seem good in theory bad in execution. Like a few others have said, learn the absolute basic building blocks well. Now you can roll your own kits with a breadboard based on what turns you on at any given moment. Then when you try to figure out why it won't work...and it won't work...that's when the serious learning happens. IDK, I find it far more satisfying building something from an idea and getting it to work while finding out where I fucked up beyond all telling. I'd be like YES YES YES YES!!!! I RULE! YES!!! It's more addictive than crack.
Just don't try to bite off more than you can chew initially. This leads to frustration and makes people want to give up prematurely. But definitely snag a mid grade multimeter, a solderless bread board, and one of those 50 dollar or less packs of misc components. From there you can just go crazy!