Roustam Tariko Quotes

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

I like to learn on my own.

I'm entirely self-taught, which I think is both a blessing and a curse.

I discover a lot of things on my own.

Don't be anybody's follower, be a student.

In Scouting, a boy is encouraged to educate himself instead of being instructed.

I soon gave up instruction for self-teaching.

Only the educated are free.

College isn't the only answer. Reading is a college that you can and should attend all your life.

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.

The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.

School seemed unimportant, since I learned so much more on my own.

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.

Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.

There is no greater education than one that is self-driven.

Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: 'Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?'

I used to be really insecure about my self-education. I'm definitely always learning. But there's many ways to learn. There are many, many ways to always be a learner.

I have to teach myself. I kind of wish I'd continued with my education, but that's something I can do in the future.

I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.

I have found people don't want to be told. That they can figure it out.

Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.

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.

The content of most textbooks is perishable, but the tools of self-directedness serve one well over time.