Kenny Stills Quotes

I soon gave up instruction for self-teaching.

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.

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

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

Learning in our family was entirely self-directed.

I was always my own teacher.

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

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

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.

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 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.

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.

I discover a lot of things on my own.

Only the autodidacts are free.

I am in an extended self-directed course of study. That is, I am in control of my own life.

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.

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

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 taught myself filmmaking on my own.

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

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

Self-study, in a sense of learning by yourself without anybody teaching you anything, has an enormous value.