Mark Twain Quotes

I never let schooling interfere with my 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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

My university work was not central to my education.

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

I think self-education is the greatest and best thing you could ever make.

Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.

Not all schooling is education nor all education, schooling.

Education is what you learn after you leave school.

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

Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.

I educated myself. To me, school was boring.

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.

The brainy class is made up of individuals who think for themselves and beyond formal education are continuous learners who tend to be self-taught.

Going to college is neither necessary nor sufficient to be well-educated.

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.

There are many types of education: formal education, street education, personal education, experiential education, and I've found that I've had different partners who have a lot of wonderful intellect and education from all different types of sources.

You learn all the best stuff in life after you leave school.

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

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