Frank McCourt Quotes

I educated myself. To me, school was boring.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

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

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 spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.

One of the things that is very silly - and I hear from educators all the time - is that schools essentially teach kids to learn. They don't need school for that. Learning is what they do best.

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 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.

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.

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

I'm a good learner. I am fond of reading and educating myself all the time.

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 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.

You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.

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 don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university.

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

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

I never went to university. I'm self-educated. I didn't go because I was too impatient, too arrogant.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.