Joe R. Lansdale Quotes

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

Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.

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 educated myself. To me, school was boring.

I had never attended high school, but I was fairly well read.

I think it is true to say that I am not the first Nobel Prize winner in economics to have little formal training in economics.

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 didn't have much of a formal education myself.

I am an entrepreneur, but not in the conventional sense. I have learnt business as time passed, but I do not have a B-school education.

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

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

I educate myself, but I haven't got the time or patience to enlist myself in a degree course. The world is my school.

As a writer, politician, scientist, and businessman, [Ben] Franklin had few equals among the educated of his day-though he left school at ten. (...)Boys like Andrew Carnegie who begged his mother not to send him to school and was well on his way to immortality and fortune at the age of thirteen, would be referred today for psychological counseling; Thomas Edison would find himself in Special Ed until his peculiar genius had been sufficiently tamed.

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

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.

I have no schooling in any normal sense but have learned from the best as far as just doing things. I learned filmmaking from loving movies and then just saying, 'OK, let's do it.'

I have been expelled from five different schools when I was a kid. And I learned basically all what I do by myself.

What I learned I learned on my own. I didn't have much school. Three years.

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

I am your original autodidact.

I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.

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.

I studied history and English in college, got a master's in writing, but I was always sort of an autodidact in science.

I don't need to spend money on school when I can just do it myself. I have pretty much everything I need with a camera and some funny friends.