Tommy Shaw Quotes

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

I like to learn on my own.

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

There is no greater education than one that is self-driven.

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.

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

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 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 didn't go to school much, so I taught myself what I knew from reading.

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

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.

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.

No matter how much I admire our schools, I know that no university exists that can provide an education; what a university can provide is an outline, to give the learner a direction and guidance. The rest one has to do for oneself.

You learn best by reading a lot and writing a lot, and the most valuable lessons of all are the ones you teach yourself.

Every person of learning is finally his own teacher.

I do not much believe in education. Each person ought to be his or her own model, however frightful that may be.

I was always my own teacher.

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

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.

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

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.

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.