Molly Crabapple Quotes

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.

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 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.

I was home schooled, so I never got a yearbook.

I educated myself. To me, school was boring.

I quickly learned that teaching students was far more complicated than managing adults. Why, you may ask? Here are three simple reasons: Your employees are paid to listen to you, students are not. In business, employees are selected based upon a search and interview process. Teachers do not select their students. In business, an insubordinate employee is fired. An insubordinate student is merely one more challenge for a classroom teacher.

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

School really didn't work for me.

I was home-schooled my entire life and never been in a classroom.

Do we really need school? I don't mean education, just forced schooling: six classes a day, five days a week, nine months a year, for twelve years. Is this deadly routine really necessary? And if so, for what? Don't hide behind reading, writing, and arithmetic as a rationale, because 2 million happy homeschoolers have surely put that banal justification to rest.

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.

Most of my teachers probably found I made less trouble if they let me read.

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

I didn't go to school a full year until I was 11 or 12, so I lived in books. I really was an observer of life.

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

I was home schooled in high school but was definitely the nerd in middle school.

The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'

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 never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.

For me, I was somebody who was a smart young guy who didn't do very well in school. The basic system of education, I didn't fit in; my intelligence was elsewhere.

The best teacher is an entertainer.

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

Personally, I had a great education. My mum was a trained teacher, a Montessori teacher, and I know that I could not have written 'Eragon' if I had gone into a public school system because I would have just been too busy attending classes and doing homework - I wouldn't have had the time to write.

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.

All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves.