Courtney Eaton Quotes

I wouldn't wish any specific thing for any specific person - it's none of my business. But the idea that a four-year degree is the only path to worthwhile knowledge is insane. It's insane.

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 never finished high school. In fact, I hated going to school.

School really didn't work for me.

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

I don't think college is for everyone. School is awesome, but for me, I was learning a lot more outside the classroom in the real world than I was in school.

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.

Not everybody needs to go to university; they can get out and start working straight away.

I hated school. After 15, you went off to college if you were good enough. It didn't appeal to me so I left school. I did what everybody did - get a job.

I didn't go to school much. I was thrown out of different schools, and my university is the street.

When I turned 15, I left school having failed to make the minimum grade. With little direction I enlisted at the local culinary school. Here the academic demands were less rigorous.

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 was home-schooled.

Gaining my education from practical experience certainly benefited me. If I had gone on to be a lawyer, my life wouldn't have been anywhere near as interesting.

I'm actually the last person to ask about school. I kinda ducked out at 12, before all that stuff might have happened. I left school after sixth grade and was basically home-schooled after that.

Personally, I had a great education. My mum was a trained teacher, a Montessori teacher, and I know that I could not have written 'Eragon' if I had gone into a public school system because I would have just been too busy attending classes and doing homework - I wouldn't have had the time to write.

I was home schooled starting in seventh grade.

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've been homeschooled since ninth grade.

I educated myself. To me, school was boring.

I knew out of high school I didn't want to go to college. I knew what whatever I did wouldn't have anything to do with college.

My parents have always been very supportive. I didn't go to school because my home was my school.

I was home-schooled. My mom wasn't a fan of public school systems.

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

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.