Oren Peli Quotes

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.

My parents would say to me, 'You can teach yourself anything better than someone else can teach it to you.' That was the whole ethos of my family.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

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

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

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

I like to learn on my own.

I discover a lot of things on my own.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

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

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

Real education is about genuine understanding and the ability to figure things out on your own; not about making sure every 7th grader has memorized all the facts some bureaucrats have put in the 7th grade curriculum.

I created myself. I have taught myself so much.

I soon gave up instruction for self-teaching.

I educated myself. To me, school was boring.

The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.

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

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

I am your original autodidact.

Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.

I was mostly self-taught on guitar and that had its benefits. It's a great thing to work through problems on your own.

My high school didn't really have a good training program, so I did it on my own.

Only the autodidacts are free.

I do not much believe in education. Each person ought to be his or her own model, however frightful that may be.