John Lydon Quotes

I'm self-made. I always wanted to make myself a better person, because I was not educated. But that was my dream - to have class.

I'm a beneficiary of an extraordinary education, and I believe that no matter where you live, the access to education is key to social mobility.

Where I'm from, there ain't a lot of other options, you know what I'm saying? Entertainment or football or crime. I don't want to spread the message that all you can do is music or sport. You can be anything. Anything. That's the message I like to spread.

What am I going to do if I stop fighting? Study? Soccer?

Every one of us every day has choices to make about the kind of person we are and what we wish to become. You can decide to be someone who brings people together, or you can fall prey to those who wish to divide us. You can be someone who educates yourself, or you can believe that being negative is clever and being cynical is fashionable. You have a choice.

There is no better teacher than life itself.

School was always a major player in my personal journey. It allowed me to open up to the world, and also social mobility. It allowed me to enrich myself, to read, learn and understand.

I read a lot. I try to gain as much knowledge as I possibly can and listen to people, because I don't know what I don't know.

I'm a good learner. I am fond of reading and educating myself all the time.

I'm learning every day.

If there's a single message passed down from each generation of American parents to their children, it is a two-word line: Better Yourself. And if there's a temple of self-betterment in each town, it is the local school. We have worshipped there for some time.

However gifted an individual is at the outset, if his or her talents cannot be developed because of his or her social condition, because of the surrounding circumstances, these talents will be still-born.

It was a good thing that she got herself into this other school. It showed her that there were other worlds beside the world she had been born into and that these other worlds were not unattainable.

The limits on your enlightenment come not from the age you stopped going to school but from the age you stopped being curious.

None of the world's problems will have a solution until the world's individuals become thoroughly self-educated.

Self-education only produces expressions of self.

When I came of age I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher to the Rule of Three.... The little advanceI now have upon this store of education, I have picked up from time to time under the pressure of necessity.

Once again, I arrived at my usual conclusion: one must educate oneself.

Giving information that will help everybody live better. That's a teacher's dream - to accumulate information and disperse it in a form that allows people to choose the way they're going to use it. That's what I think I do best.

I think self-education is the greatest and best thing you could ever make.

The best and most important part of every man's education is that which he gives himself.

I do not much believe in education. Each person ought to be his or her own model, however frightful that may be.

I count myself one of the number of those who write as they learn and learn as they write.

Vitally important for a young man or woman is, first, to realize the value of education and then to cultivate earnestly, aggressively, ceaselessly, the habit of self-education.

I will never be a stupid girl... and neither should you. Today, charting your own course isn't just more necessary than ever before... it's also much easier -- and much more fun. A good education is one of the greatest gifts you could ever give yourself.