Joichi Ito Quotes

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

I didn't go to high school, I didn't go to college, I didn't have women's studies. All of my feminist ideals and education have been built around art and my friends and community. And so it's still growing.

I pretty much left full-time, formal education when I was 11, so that was when I was taken out of the school system... The longest stretch I would go back for was a term and a half when I was about 14.

I've never studied anything formally. I was excluded from school at the age of 17, so I am an autodidact, which is a word that I have taught myself.

I soon gave up instruction for self-teaching.

I educated myself. To me, school was boring.

I had no education whatsoever, and my mother said, 'Oh, you'll get a much better education in life.' I did to some extent, though I always wish I could have tried it.

I'm entirely self-taught, which I think is both a blessing and a curse.

Here's the thing: I consider myself pretty well - for somebody that didn't go to high school, pretty well educated.

We have been taught (that is, schooled) in this country to think of 'success' as synonymous with, or at least dependent upon, 'schooling,' but historically that isn’t true in either an intellectual or a financial sense. And plenty of people throughout the world today find a way to educate themselves without resorting to a system of compulsory secondary schools that all too often resemble prison.

The highest culture is not obtained from the teacher when at school or college, so much as by our ever diligent self-education when we become men.

I never took a computer science course in college, because then it was a thing you just learned on your own.

I had no training in research as such, and as a consequence, I am, in a sense, self-taught.

I will get my education - if it is in home, school, or anyplace.

I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.

I'm not a trained actor. I'm someone who is autodidactic and learned on my own.

Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.

My father had very little formal education.

You have to think about what you want to do. There is nothing to say that you should study from the age of 20 to 23. I learnt more on a film set at 17 than in the classroom.

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

I didn't go to university or get a degree, but I hired somebody as a mentor - and that I considered my university education.

I've never been a big believer in formal education.

Many people who excel are self-taught.

There's a lot out there for me to learn that isn't in college, so I think it's fine for me if I don't go yet.