Ludwig von Mises Quotes

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.

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 educated myself. To me, school was boring.

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

I never got a degree; I just started writing.

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

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

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

I am self-educated from genre books.

You learn best by reading a lot and writing a lot, and the most valuable lessons of all are the ones you teach yourself.

I am basically a pretty good autodidact. I can teach myself things.

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.

An artist who is self-taught is taught by a very ignorant person indeed.

The difference between the university graduate and the autodidact lies not so much in the extent of knowledge as in the extent of vitality and self-confidence.

In terms of formal education, I may somewhat lacking. I never finished school. I am a self-taught entrepreneur, that's the best kind there is, trust me

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

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.

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

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

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.

I soon gave up instruction for self-teaching.

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

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

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