Howard Jacobson Quotes

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.

I just had to plod along without having any teaching, which was a pity.

I soon gave up instruction for self-teaching.

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

I like to learn on my own.

Learning in our family was entirely self-directed.

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.

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

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 was learning things in school rather than learning how to teach myself, which is what you have to do in life, so I just abandoned it and did ceramics for a year and a half.

School seemed unimportant, since I learned so much more on my own.

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

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

I believe that whenever I want to learn something I can learn it much better and faster by myself if I'm motivated to learn it as opposed to kind of doing it in more a standard, institutionalized way.

Many people who excel are self-taught.

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

I don't like books that seem to want to teach me things. Which is not to say that one doesn't learn from books - but you do your own learning in your own way.

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.

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

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.

I discover a lot of things on my own.

Actually, all education is self-education. A teacher is only a guide, to point out the way, and no school, no matter how excellent, can give you education. What you receive is like the outlines in a child’s coloring book. You must fill in the colors yourself.

I love learning, but hate being taught.

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

I never let schooling interfere with my education.