Brie Larson Quotes

Take advantage of educating yourself.

YouTube is my university.

YouTube videos and practice have taught me all I know.

I tell people, 'I have a Ph.D. from Google University.'

There's so much free material on the Internet you can learn from, and some people are pure self-starters: they pick up computers and teach themselves everything. Certainly there are millions of people like that. But at the same time, I think it's a pretty small percentage of the population.

Going online and asking questions is the best way to learn.

As technology breaks down the physical barriers of college campuses, the extraordinary intellectual capital of the educator community is becoming available to anyone committed to learning - regardless of age, income or location.

I believe e-courses will eventually change people's attitude toward learning. Education will play an increasingly dominant role in people's lives. For people of all ages and all geographies.

I think we can question whether degrees are antediluvian. Online learning has flexibility. Why not master courses in energy, writing, communications, and engineering and get a credential?

With FutureLearn there are so many free courses and we like learning all the time.

If you can read, you can find books on anything you want. You can self-educate even if you can't afford to go to school.

I'm learning something all the time. That's the way I want it to go, and that's the way I'll go until I am no longer on this planet.

I don't mind children cribbing answers off other children. It's one of the ways they can learn. I also don't think there should be too many constraints on what they can look at on the Internet.

All the filmmakers I've worked with have taken my desire to educate myself very seriously.

You cannot make thousands of universities or hundreds of thousands of professors, but with technology and the Internet you can have great courses and make a digital university.

I can see a day soon where you'll create your own college degree by taking the best online courses from the best professors from around the world - some computing from Stanford, some entrepreneurship from Wharton, some ethics from Brandeis, some literature from Edinburgh - paying only the nominal fee for the certificates of completion.

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

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

I used to be really insecure about my self-education. I'm definitely always learning. But there's many ways to learn. There are many, many ways to always be a learner.

I am your original autodidact.

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his own education.

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.

In the universities, we teach you what we decide you need to know. And the employers find out when they hire people that students didn't learn what we needed them to learn. Online learning offerings, like the University of Phoenix, have relationships with employers and teach what you need to know.

For a highly motivated learner, it's not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you're a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.

I don't think there's nearly enough interesting ways to do education online, particularly for younger children.