Nancy McKeon Quotes

I have no schooling in any normal sense but have learned from the best as far as just doing things. I learned filmmaking from loving movies and then just saying, 'OK, let's do it.'

I've never had formal drama-school training; I've just picked things up as I've gone along.

I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.

Ashok Mehta did not go to any institute. He did not carry the baggage of formal education.

One of the brilliant things I realised after I'd left school is that there are so many ways you can learn. I do this best on the job.

I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university.

Lessons didn't really work out for me, so I went to the old school, listening to records and learning what I wanted to learn.

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.'

What I learned I learned on my own. I didn't have much school. Three years.

I never went to business school. I was just bumbling through a lot of my life. I was like the guy behind the curtain in The Wizard of Oz.

Stanford had no journalism program so I just learned by doing, effectively.

I haven't had any formal education. Through the grace of god, I am gifted in mathematics and the English language.

Oddly enough, I never studied writing. I studied almost everything except writing.

Are any of us self-taught? It just means I didn't go to school for it. But you do have teachers. You have mentors.

I am an entrepreneur, but not in the conventional sense. I have learnt business as time passed, but I do not have a B-school education.

I never got a degree; I just started writing.

I didn't go to no school for acting. I learned it all by trial and error.

I educate myself, but I haven't got the time or patience to enlist myself in a degree course. The world is my school.

Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.

As a writer, politician, scientist, and businessman, [Ben] Franklin had few equals among the educated of his day-though he left school at ten. (...)Boys like Andrew Carnegie who begged his mother not to send him to school and was well on his way to immortality and fortune at the age of thirteen, would be referred today for psychological counseling; Thomas Edison would find himself in Special Ed until his peculiar genius had been sufficiently tamed.

An artist who is self-taught is taught by a very ignorant person indeed.

My education was neglected, yet I was passionately fond of reading.

If you ask most smart or successful people where they learned their craft, they will not talk to you about their time in school. It's always a mentor, a particularly transformative job, or a period of experimentation or trial and error.

There's nothing that can replace learning on the field.