Anne Hegerty Quotes

I remember that already as a child I was often intensely interested in things, obsessed by ideas and projects in many areas, and in these topics I learned much on my own, reading books.

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 spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.

I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book.

My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.

College isn't the only answer. Reading is a college that you can and should attend all your life.

My parents were keen for me to have the education they themselves never had. They weren't able to guide me towards particular books, but they encouraged me to read, which I did, randomly and compulsively.

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 don't remember being taught to read, and by the time I was seven years old, I had read a very great many books, good, bad, and indifferent.

I like doing scholarship for its own sake.

I'm a good learner. I am fond of reading and educating myself all the time.

My head was always bubbling over with facts and it seems to me this had little to do with my paying close attention in school and more to do with my voracious and omnivorous reading habits.

I'm not a nerd, don't plan to be a nerd and read books - which I can't do at all.

There's so much free material on the Internet you can learn from, and some people are pure self-starters: they pick up computers and teach themselves everything. Certainly there are millions of people like that. But at the same time, I think it's a pretty small percentage of the population.

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

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

For me, learning is a continuous process and an all-inclusive one - reading a book, learning a musical instrument or learning the martial art called taekwondo. Teach myself something new - that's my prayer.

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

I went to college, but I learned to write by reading - and writing.

The brainy class is made up of individuals who think for themselves and beyond formal education are continuous learners who tend to be self-taught.

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

I used to be really insecure about my self-education. I'm definitely always learning. But there's many ways to learn. There are many, many ways to always be a learner.

As a kid, I spent every summer bent over a stack of books, obsessively writing detailed reports on each one.

Whatever education I got was from experience and reading. But I also realize I wouldn't pass my friend's sixth-grade class.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.