Michelle Williams Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

I will get my education - if it is in home, school, or anyplace.

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

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

My father had very little formal education.

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