Tara Westover Quotes

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

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

I didn't go to high school, so I don't have a high school experience. I was home-schooled during high school.

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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 educated myself. To me, school was boring.

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

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

Don't get me wrong: school is good and all, but school is way too slow for me. Like, super slow. So I didn't want to go. I wanted to learn on my own with real life experiences.

I left high school very early. I was 17. So I guess it wasn't that early, but I did not get a high school education.

I started working at a really young age, so I didn't even go to traditional high school.

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

There is no other complex field in our society in which do-it-yourself beats out factory production or market production. Nobody makes his or her own car. But it is still the case that parents can perform the job of educating their children [homeschooling], in many cases better than our present education system.

Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.

I didn't go to high school. I never felt connected to people my age.

The smartest billionaires I know never finished high school. I got my degree and my doctorate on the street and an advanced degree in jail.

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.