H. L. Hunt Quotes

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

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

My father had very little formal education.

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.

The idea of education has been so tied to schools, universities, and professors that many assume there is no other way, but education is available to anyone within reach of a library, a post office, or even a newsstand.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

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

I listen to Radio 4 all the time. I didn't go to university, so that's my further education.

Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.

I educated myself. To me, school was boring.

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

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

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 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.

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

My university work was not central to my education.

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.

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 actually went to film school, but I didn't like it. I'm basically self-taught.

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

I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.

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

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 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.

My dad dropped out of school in middle school, but he reads five or six books a week, and my mom reads about two.