Chance The Rapper Quotes

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

Lessons didn't really work out for me, so I went to the old school, listening to records and learning what I wanted to learn.

Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.

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

I didn't live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don't know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

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.

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.

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.

I wasn't a very good student. I prefer to learn by experience.

I will get my education - if it is in home, school, or anyplace.

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

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'm not a trained actor. I'm someone who is autodidactic and learned on my own.

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

Lessons are not given, they are taken.

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

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

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

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

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

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.

I have been expelled from five different schools when I was a kid. And I learned basically all what I do by myself.

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.