Gloria Steinem Quotes

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

I educated myself. To me, school was boring.

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

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 never felt connected to people my age.

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 didn't go to high school, and I didn't go to grade school either. Education, I think, is for refinement and is probably a liability.

I was home schooled, so I never got a yearbook.

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

I never went to university. I'm self-educated. I didn't go because I was too impatient, too arrogant.

I have been expelled from five different schools when I was a kid. And I learned basically all what I do by myself.

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.

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

Well, I was actually home-schooled because I was already acting.

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

I didn't read much in high school, maybe because I didn't go to high school. Instead, I worked.

Philosophers have long conceded, however, that every man has two educators: 'that which is given to him, and the other that which he gives himself. Of the two kinds the latter is by far the more desirable. Indeed all that is most worthy in man he must work out and conquer for himself. It is that which constitutes our real and best nourishment. What we are merely taught seldom nourishes the mind like that which we teach ourselves.

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 remember that already as a child I was often intensely interested in things, obsessed by ideas and projects in many areas, and in these topics I learned much on my own, reading books.

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

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.

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 never let schooling interfere with my education.

I think it is true to say that I am not the first Nobel Prize winner in economics to have little formal training in economics.

I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.