Malala Yousafzai Quotes

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 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.

The formal education that I received made little sense to me.

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

My father had very little formal education.

I've never been a big believer in formal education.

When we home schooled my oldest, Jasper, in eighth grade, I saw how empowering it is for a child to learn in their own way. That rebooted my thinking about education.

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

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

My schedule won't allow me to go to regular school, but I did love public school, and I did experience my first year of middle school in a regular school.

Here's the thing: I consider myself pretty well - for somebody that didn't go to high school, pretty well educated.

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

I do home schooling. I went to regular school until fifth grade, and then I started doing home schooling, which it's completely different. I have a teacher on set with me and I just work with her, one-on-one.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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 was home schooled starting in seventh grade.

It is home schooling that is rejecting a narrowness. It is not a radical value system; it's actually quite conservative.

I didn't go to high school, so I don't have a high school experience. I was home-schooled during high school.

I educated myself. To me, school was boring.

I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.

Home schooled children frequently combine for many purposes - and they interact well. The growth of the home schooling movement means that more and more children are learning together, just not in a traditional classroom.