Stanley Kubrick Quotes

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.

My dad dropped out of school in middle school, but he reads five or six books a week, and my mom reads about two.

Whatever education I got was from experience and reading. But I also realize I wouldn't pass my friend's sixth-grade class.

I didn't go to school much. I was thrown out of different schools, and my university is the street.

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.

I never went to university. I'm self-educated. I didn't go because I was too impatient, too arrogant.

I educated myself. To me, school was boring.

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

I've never been a big believer in formal education.

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

I don't think I ever consciously separated 'school' books from any others; I just read anything that came across my path.

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.

The idea of education has been so tied to schools, universities, and professors that many assume there is no other way, but education is available to anyone within reach of a library, a post office, or even a newsstand.

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

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

Most people acquire most of their knowledge outside school, and in school only insofar as school, in a few rich countries, has become their place of confinement during an increasing part of their lives.

I pretty much left full-time, formal education when I was 11, so that was when I was taken out of the school system... The longest stretch I would go back for was a term and a half when I was about 14.

I didn't go to high school. I never felt connected to people my age.

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

I didn't have a regular school experience and wanted a more abstract way of learning. I started exploring in lots of different creative ways. It gave me the opportunity to travel and play music, so it was good for me.

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.

You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to 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.