Lana Del Rey Quotes

I was learning things in school rather than learning how to teach myself, which is what you have to do in life, so I just abandoned it and did ceramics for a year and a half.

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.

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.

When you home study, you get a better education. I basically got to teach myself. Being naturally able to make my own opinions about the schoolwork I had to deal with, instead of being instructed under the tutelage of the teacher, was really nice academically.

I educated myself. To me, school was boring.

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

I got expelled from high school, and then did my exams from home. I decided, through that experience, that I was going to expediate my plan and didn't go to university. Instead, I went to a community college and studied the theory and history of film with the idea that I wanted to write and direct.

I began drawing when I was nearly 3, and after finishing the sixth grade, I left school to paint and was tutored at home. My father didn't think a formal education was necessary for a painter.

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

Makeup is where my career is going, but I would love to also indulge in music. It's still one of my absolute favorite things in the world.

I quit school in ninth grade, even though I was good at the studies. I knew I didn't need school for what I wanted.

I didn't go to school a full year until I was 11 or 12, so I lived in books. I really was an observer of life.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

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.

School was a waste of time for me. I was bored and left at 16. I started taking correspondence courses at college instead. I did incredibly well. I won an award for my grades.

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

I had the most reversed education possible. Every parent wants their son to be a businessman, respectable - me, it was the opposite. When I had an artist career my mum was like, 'Oh finally, I'm proud of you!'

Gaining my education from practical experience certainly benefited me. If I had gone on to be a lawyer, my life wouldn't have been anywhere near as interesting.

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.

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

Lessons didn't really work out for me, so I went to the old school, listening to records and learning what I wanted to learn.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

I can be working on a collection and a film at the same time. It can take a lot out of me, but the processes come from the same source. From a brief I set myself I can make a film, I can make a collection, I can make an installation.