George Bernard Shaw Quotes

I educated myself. To me, school was boring.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

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

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.

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

I soon gave up instruction for self-teaching.

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

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

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

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.

There is no other complex field in our society in which do-it-yourself beats out factory production or market production. Nobody makes his or her own car. But it is still the case that parents can perform the job of educating their children [homeschooling], in many cases better than our present education system.

Self-education only produces expressions of self.

Every person of learning is finally his own teacher.

It was at home I learned the little I know. Schools always appeared to me like a prison, and never could I make up my mind to stay there, not even for four hours a day, when the sunshine was inviting, the sea smooth, and when it was joy to run about the cliffs in the free air, or to paddle in the water.

I was always my own teacher.

Learn of the skillful; he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master.

Self-study, in a sense of learning by yourself without anybody teaching you anything, has an enormous value.

I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know.

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 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.

The formal education that I received made little sense to me.

Five years ago, Samira did not want to continue in the regular school system in Iran. To help her with her education, I set up a home school. It wasn't just for my family, it was open to other friends.

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.

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.