Tyler Cowen Quotes

I had no training in research as such, and as a consequence, I am, in a sense, self-taught.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

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

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

I'm not a trained actor. I'm someone who is autodidactic and learned on my own.

School seemed unimportant, since I learned so much more on my own.

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.

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

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.

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

I think a lot of people have grown up with the idea that they can't learn things themselves. They think they need an institution to provide them with knowledge and teach them how to do things. I couldn't disagree more.

I taught myself filmmaking on my own.

I educate myself, but I haven't got the time or patience to enlist myself in a degree course. The world is my school.

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

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

I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.

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.

I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.

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.

I just had to plod along without having any teaching, which was a pity.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

I know how to learn anything I want to learn. I absolutely know that I could learn how to fly the space shuttle because someone else knows how to fly it, and they put it in a book. Give me the book, and I do not need somebody to stand up in front of the class.

I never went to university. I'm self-educated. I didn't go because I was too impatient, too arrogant.

Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.