John Keegan Quotes

I try never to let my schooling get in the way of my education.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

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

Are any of us self-taught? It just means I didn't go to school for it. But you do have teachers. You have mentors.

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 taught myself more in the library than school taught me.

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

I like learning new stuff, and continuing to educate myself as best I can.

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

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

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.

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 prophet. I'm not a teacher. I have no degrees. My degree is from the University of Life.

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.

I didn't go to school much, so I taught myself what I knew from reading.

Anyone can be self-educated if they find the loose end of something to care about passionately.

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.

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

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

Going to college is neither necessary nor sufficient to be well-educated.

I have spent my whole life educating myself.

The thing that what we're taught in the public school system is everything you should know, I disagree with that. The most brilliant people in the world were dropouts - not that I'm pro-dropping out.

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

There are many types of education: formal education, street education, personal education, experiential education, and I've found that I've had different partners who have a lot of wonderful intellect and education from all different types of sources.