Tara Westover Quotes

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

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

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

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

To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.

Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.

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

I learned from my parents the idea that, if you are devoted enough and you want to study something enough, you can really teach yourself anything.

The brainy class is made up of individuals who think for themselves and beyond formal education are continuous learners who tend to be self-taught.

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.

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 didn't have much of a formal education myself.

I think a lot of people have grown up with the idea that they can't learn things themselves. They think they need an institution to provide them with knowledge and teach them how to do things. I couldn't disagree more.

Every person has two educations, one which he receives from others, and one, more important, which he gives to himself.

Philosophers have long conceded, however, that every man has two educators: 'that which is given to him, and the other that which he gives himself. Of the two kinds the latter is by far the more desirable. Indeed all that is most worthy in man he must work out and conquer for himself. It is that which constitutes our real and best nourishment. What we are merely taught seldom nourishes the mind like that which we teach ourselves.

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

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

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

I had no training in research as such, and as a consequence, I am, in a sense, self-taught.

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.

When you home study, you get a better education. I basically got to teach myself. Being naturally able to make my own opinions about the schoolwork I had to deal with, instead of being instructed under the tutelage of the teacher, was really nice academically.

My university work was not central to my education.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

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.

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