Twyla Tharp Quotes

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

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

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 have a regular school experience and wanted a more abstract way of learning. I started exploring in lots of different creative ways. It gave me the opportunity to travel and play music, so it was good for me.

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.

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

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 never let schooling interfere with my education.

You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.

One of the things that is very silly - and I hear from educators all the time - is that schools essentially teach kids to learn. They don't need school for that. Learning is what they do best.

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

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.

I didn't go to high school, and I didn't go to grade school either. Education, I think, is for refinement and is probably a liability.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

The idea of education has been so tied to schools, universities, and professors that many assume there is no other way, but education is available to anyone within reach of a library, a post office, or even a newsstand.

Are any of us self-taught? It just means I didn't go to school for it. But you do have teachers. You have mentors.

I didn't have much of a formal education myself.

Education is what you must acquire without any interference from your schooling.

Most people acquire most of their knowledge outside school, and in school only insofar as school, in a few rich countries, has become their place of confinement during an increasing part of their lives.

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