Tommy Chong Quotes

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

I didn't have a normal academic career. I never studied cinema. I learned from life.

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

I didn't go to theater school. I didn't go to Julliard. But I've lived a lot. I've seen a lot. I feel like that makes up for a little bit.

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

My teacher told me I'd never amount to anything. I left high school at 15, after one year. But my real teachers were all the people around me. And I was a good listener.

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.

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.

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

I never had a teacher, and I never had lessons, other than hard Nature itself.

That which we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so.

I certainly didn't learn anything in school. My education was the world.

I dropped out of college and I'm pretty much a self-educated person, so a lot of my core belief system comes from life.

I may not have a degree, but I certainly got an education.

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.

My best mentor is a mechanic - and he never left the sixth grade. By any competency measure, he doesn't have it. But the perspective he brings to me and my life is, bar none, the most helpful.

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 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.

I'm not a prophet. I'm not a teacher. I have no degrees. My degree is from the University of Life.

I educated myself. To me, school was boring.

I didn't go to university. I didn't go to culinary school, barely made it through high school.

I never studied, but I had the best teachers.

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

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.