Karl Lagerfeld Quotes

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

I educated myself. To me, school was boring.

Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.

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.

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

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 soon gave up instruction for self-teaching.

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

Ashok Mehta did not go to any institute. He did not carry the baggage of formal education.

I'm entirely self-taught, which I think is both a blessing and a curse.

Almost everything I've been paid to do was something that was largely self-taught.

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.

I had no training in research as such, and as a consequence, I am, in a sense, self-taught.

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.

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

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.

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

I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.

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

My first public impression was my French teacher, Derek Swift.

What I learned I learned on my own. I didn't have much school. Three years.

Many people who excel are self-taught.

After this, I took private lessons in Italian from an elementary school teacher. He gave me themes to write about, and some of them turned out so well that he told me to publish them in a newspaper.