Lil Uzi Vert Quotes

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.

I didn't have a regular school experience and wanted a more abstract way of learning. I started exploring in lots of different creative ways. It gave me the opportunity to travel and play music, so it was good for me.

I educated myself. To me, school was boring.

School seemed unimportant, since I learned so much more on my own.

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

I didn't have much of a formal education myself.

I don't thrive in a school or academic environment, I found out. I thrive better in the world outside the small academy because I find it hard to explain what I'm doing.

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

The formal education that I received made little sense to me.

You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.

One of the things that is very silly - and I hear from educators all the time - is that schools essentially teach kids to learn. They don't need school for that. Learning is what they do best.

The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom.

Being homeschooled for half of my life allowed me to choose my own curriculum and find things I really enjoy, and that's kind of inspired me. I've always been intrigued in or interested in the topics I've been covering.

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 wasn't a very good student. I prefer to learn by experience.

I wouldn't wish any specific thing for any specific person - it's none of my business. But the idea that a four-year degree is the only path to worthwhile knowledge is insane. It's insane.

I believe that whenever I want to learn something I can learn it much better and faster by myself if I'm motivated to learn it as opposed to kind of doing it in more a standard, institutionalized way.

When we home schooled my oldest, Jasper, in eighth grade, I saw how empowering it is for a child to learn in their own way. That rebooted my thinking about education.

Whatever education I got was from experience and reading. But I also realize I wouldn't pass my friend's sixth-grade class.

I dropped out of school, but I didn't drop out of life. I would leave the house each morning and go to the main branch of the Carnegie Library in Oakland where they had all the books in the world... I felt suddenly liberated from the constraints of a pre-arranged curriculum that labored through one book in eight months.

I was delighted to not go to university. I couldn't wait to be out of education.

I had never attended high school, but I was fairly well read.

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

I'd like to see a reality where, if someone wants to work when they turn 18 to help support their family, and they learn at their own pace on something like the Khan Academy or other things, that they can just, on their own, get a bunch of the credits they need just by testing out of things.

I was home-schooled my entire life and never been in a classroom.