Pinetop Perkins Quotes

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

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.

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

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

I didn't go to school a full year until I was 11 or 12, so I lived in books. I really was an observer of life.

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

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 trained actor. I'm someone who is autodidactic and learned on my own.

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.

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.

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

I didn't read much in high school, maybe because I didn't go to high school. Instead, I worked.

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.

Ringo: 'I had no schooling before I joined The Beatles and no schooling after The Beatles. Life is a great education.

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 smartest billionaires I know never finished high school. I got my degree and my doctorate on the street and an advanced degree in jail.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

My university work was not central to my education.

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

I listen to Radio 4 all the time. I didn't go to university, so that's my further education.

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 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.

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.

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