Will Smith Quotes

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

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.

Learning in our family was entirely self-directed.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

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

I believe that whenever I want to learn something I can learn it much better and faster by myself if I'm motivated to learn it as opposed to kind of doing it in more a standard, institutionalized way.

I like to learn on my own.

My aim in homeschooling is to give my children the ability to be an adult learner, a skill set that will last the rest of their lives.

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.

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

I was learning things in school rather than learning how to teach myself, which is what you have to do in life, so I just abandoned it and did ceramics for a year and a half.

I soon gave up instruction for self-teaching.

I always believe that a person can learn so much by just jumping into something and trying to do it rather than having someone else teach you everything.

The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.

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

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.

Nothing important can be taught, only learned.

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

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

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.

People think that it is important to learn by assisting the great photographers. I say that is a big mistake. Be happy; just learn from any little guy. Learn how to use the camera - you don't need anything else. You can't be taught the real skill anyway.

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

I just had to plod along without having any teaching, which was a pity.

There's so much free material on the Internet you can learn from, and some people are pure self-starters: they pick up computers and teach themselves everything. Certainly there are millions of people like that. But at the same time, I think it's a pretty small percentage of the population.

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.