Wim Hof Quotes

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

One of the things that is very silly - and I hear from educators all the time - is that schools essentially teach kids to learn. They don't need school for that. Learning is what they do best.

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

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

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.

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

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.

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

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 educated myself. To me, school was boring.

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'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 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 don't like books that seem to want to teach me things. Which is not to say that one doesn't learn from books - but you do your own learning in your own way.

I like to learn on my own.

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

I didn't have much of a formal education myself.

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

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

I was always my own teacher.

The smartest billionaires I know never finished high school. I got my degree and my doctorate on the street and an advanced degree in jail.

I didn't have a normal academic career. I never studied cinema. I learned from life.