Claude Monet Quotes

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.

Five years ago, Samira did not want to continue in the regular school system in Iran. To help her with her education, I set up a home school. It wasn't just for my family, it was open to other friends.

I was home schooled starting in seventh grade.

I educated myself. To me, school was boring.

My parents have always been very supportive. I didn't go to school because my home was my school.

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

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.

I dropped out of school, but I didn't drop out of life. I would leave the house each morning and go to the main branch of the Carnegie Library in Oakland where they had all the books in the world... I felt suddenly liberated from the constraints of a pre-arranged curriculum that labored through one book in eight months.

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

My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.

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 never let schooling interfere with my education.

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

My university work was not central to my education.

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

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

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

I was home-schooled.

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

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, so I never got a yearbook.

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.

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