Yves Chauvin Quotes

I'm not a trained actor. I'm someone who is autodidactic and learned on my own.

Many people who excel are self-taught.

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

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

Almost everything I've been paid to do was something that was largely self-taught.

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

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

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

My high school didn't really have a good training program, so I did it on my own.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.

Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.

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

I soon gave up instruction for self-teaching.

I learned easily and had time to follow my inclination for sports (light athletics and skiing) and chemistry, which I taught myself by reading all textbooks I could get.

The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.

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

I am your original autodidact.

We want to hire people who are self-learners.

I taught myself filmmaking on my own.

My parents would say to me, 'You can teach yourself anything better than someone else can teach it to you.' That was the whole ethos of my family.

Education is what you must acquire without any interference from your schooling.

Begin by instructing yourself, then you will receive instruction from others.

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

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.