Alan Moore Quotes

I educated myself. To me, school was boring.

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

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

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

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

Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.

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 never got a degree; I just started writing.

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

As a writer, politician, scientist, and businessman, [Ben] Franklin had few equals among the educated of his day-though he left school at ten. (...)Boys like Andrew Carnegie who begged his mother not to send him to school and was well on his way to immortality and fortune at the age of thirteen, would be referred today for psychological counseling; Thomas Edison would find himself in Special Ed until his peculiar genius had been sufficiently tamed.

We have been taught (that is, schooled) in this country to think of 'success' as synonymous with, or at least dependent upon, 'schooling,' but historically that isn’t true in either an intellectual or a financial sense. And plenty of people throughout the world today find a way to educate themselves without resorting to a system of compulsory secondary schools that all too often resemble prison.

I didn't go to high school. I never felt connected to people my age.

I didn't go to school a full year until I was 11 or 12, so I lived in books. I really was an observer of life.

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.

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

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

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

Stanford had no journalism program so I just learned by doing, effectively.

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

I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.

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.

Don't get me wrong: school is good and all, but school is way too slow for me. Like, super slow. So I didn't want to go. I wanted to learn on my own with real life experiences.

I was home-schooled my entire life and never been in a classroom.

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