Chris Cornell Quotes

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

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

I left school at 15, didn't pick up my GCSEs, didn't do A-levels, didn't go to uni.

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

I wasn't a smart kid and I still don't think I'm too smart when it comes to book smart, but I was very good with what I knew and with my craft and I think that was my calling in life. But even today I never went to college.

I didn't go to school much. I was thrown out of different schools, and my university is the street.

In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn't been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A's without taking a book home. I didn't go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam.

I was home schooled in high school but was definitely the nerd in middle school.

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'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'm actually the last person to ask about school. I kinda ducked out at 12, before all that stuff might have happened. I left school after sixth grade and was basically home-schooled after that.

I was home schooled starting in seventh grade.

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

You have to think about what you want to do. There is nothing to say that you should study from the age of 20 to 23. I learnt more on a film set at 17 than in the classroom.

School's not for everyone, but I'm not telling people to leave school.

I was home-schooled for my entire high school experience, so I never went to prom.

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 did drop out of school.

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

I think that school just isn't for everyone. A lot of people don't learn well when they're - have to sit in a place for eight hours. A lot of people learn best lying in their own bed, teaching themselves from books. And I was a bad student. I was a brat. If I was a teacher, I would not have liked myself.

Parents or guardians who themselves arrange for their children or wards receiving instruction equal to the general elementary school standard, shall not be obliged to have their children or wards taught in elementary school

My brother was really smart, and I definitely had a little ADD - I was very creative and active - and my mom thought, 'Why should I send them to school when they can work at a higher level at home?'

I grew up in that band. Some people go to college and get a Master's. I went to My Chem academy, and I feel like I graduated with honors.

My mom and dad decided to homeschool us - I'm one of eight - because they really wanted us to be outside and learn some other fundamentals instead of it being school all day in a classroom.

In my family, education was something you endured. My parents weren't educated past high school, and the only book in our house was a 'Reader's Digest' condensed book. Can you imagine?