Kate Atkinson Quotes

Ashok Mehta did not go to any institute. He did not carry the baggage of formal education.

I spent lots of time reading the encyclopedia and really kind of an eclectic approach to learning things - not very structured.

My education was neglected, yet I was passionately fond of reading.

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.

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

I read a lot of highly unsuitable books for an 11-year-old. I was desperate to read as widely as possible. I thought, 'There are so many places I am never going to get the chance to visit, but I can if I read them.' And I did. I could go anywhere in the world - and off it - by reading.

I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university.

I will get my education - if it is in home, school, or anyplace.

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

Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.

My father had very little formal education.

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

I never went to business school. I was just bumbling through a lot of my life. I was like the guy behind the curtain in The Wizard of Oz.

I didn't go to university or get a degree, but I hired somebody as a mentor - and that I considered my university education.

I haven't had any formal education. Through the grace of god, I am gifted in mathematics and the English language.

I think that's not a question that one can answer accurately. I read a whole range of books, quite a lot of history at the time, and still do read a lot. I read very widely.

I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.

I had no education whatsoever, and my mother said, 'Oh, you'll get a much better education in life.' I did to some extent, though I always wish I could have tried it.

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

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

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 just went along with political activists and interested in other intellectual interests which I pursued kind of at random. I never had a real college education. I got a degree, but it was just patching together courses here and there.

The self taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known if he had worked under teachers, and besides, he brags, and is the means of fooling other thoughtless people into going and doing as he himself has done.

the slight sense of degeneracy induced by reading novels before luncheon

To keep an active mind, I find that reading novels is really good.