Ray Bradbury Quotes

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.

When I graduated from high school I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library 3 days a week for 10 years.

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

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

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

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

Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.

I educated myself. To me, school was boring.

My thirst for knowledge and experience comes from the idea that once you learned something, it was time to learn something else. I missed out on a formal educational process, so I'm making up for that.

I used to be really insecure about my self-education. I'm definitely always learning. But there's many ways to learn. There are many, many ways to always be a learner.

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

I have spent my whole life educating myself.

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.

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

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

Not all knowledge comes from college.

I never went to college, so I went to the library.

Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.

Not long ago, an English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was "What's your alma mater?" I told him, "Books." You will never catch me with a free fifteen minutes in which I'm not studying something I feel might be able to help the black man.

Libraries are absolutely at the center of my life. Since I couldn't afford to go to college, I attended the library three or four days a week from the age of eighteen on, and graduated from the library when I was twenty-eight.

Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won't come out for twenty years, if you really wish to learn.

I like learning new stuff, and continuing to educate myself as best I can.

My university work was not central to my education.

I listen to Radio 4 all the time. I didn't go to university, so that's my further education.

I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university.