Unmotivated Learning Quotes

When you're forced to watch something in school, you never really enjoy it; you sort of rebel against it in a certain way.

Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view.

At college, I wasn't passionate about anything I was studying.

During college, I found academics repulsive and forced myself to study subjects I didn't want to pursue.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

I was a very bad student. I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I knew I didn't want to go farther in school. I hated school and was always the bad one; I was always insulting the teachers.

I had a number of teachers who hated me. I didn't do well in school.

I wasn't always such a great fan of Shakespeare, mind you. I can guess we all at one time had it rammed down our necks at school, which tends to take the edge off it.

I got into psychology simply because that's what my sister did, and I grew up in a family that was very, like, 'Follow your sister's footsteps.' I went to the same school she went to, did the same degree she did... really had no interest in it, to be honest.

I was bored by going to Mommy and Me, and I certainly didn't want to write about it.

Middle and high school sucked.

No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory