Unstructured Learning Quotes

I don't learn as well, I think, in like a structured way. I kind of have to be thrown into it.

I am continually embarrassed by people who point me out as an example of what can be done without training.

The self taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known if he had worked under teachers, and besides, he brags, and is the means of fooling other thoughtless people into going and doing as he himself has done.

I routinely interview college students, mostly from top schools, and I notice that their brains are like old maps, with lots of blank spaces for the uncharted terrain. It's not that they lack for motivation or IQ. It's that they can't connect the dots when they don't know where the dots are in the first place.

School is not for me. I'm volatile and hate being told what to do.

I don't like games. You're robbing the precious time of children to be children. They need to be in touch with the real world more.

The unfortunate, yet truly exciting thing about your life, is that there is no core curriculum. The entire place is an elective.

Looking back, I realise it wasn't only gym I dreaded at school. Every class was a torment. It wasn't knowledge I objected to but instruction. Why couldn't they just tell us what books to read and leave us to get on and read them?

I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that. Just loafed I suppose.

Nobody ever told me, 'Art is this.' This was good luck in a way because I would have had to spend half of my life forgetting everything that I had been told, which is what happens with most students in schools of fine arts.

I don't like books that seem to want to teach me things. Which is not to say that one doesn't learn from books - but you do your own learning in your own way.

I never went to school for art or was told what to like or when. So every day is a learning process, like most of life.

If you give children the freedom to do very little, quite a lot will do very little.

I quit high school the first day of 10th grade because I felt like I was wasting time.

To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that.

I've never liked having like a set kind of schedule of training. Even when I was doing guitar lessons, I never used to practice.

I was part of a generation where kids had a lot of freedom and aimless downtime. I had no scheduled after-school activities. As long as you came home for dinner, everything was fine.

Oh my God, I love UCLA so much. Their film school is great because it's unstructured, so there's a freedom to fail in there and just tell your story, and everybody makes a film. It's so important to have that freedom in film school because that's what you're there for: to learn and make a film.

I think it's better when you're natural, when you just do whatever you want, instead of doing classes where I see all these other people holding back because they've been trained with certain skills or techniques. I'm like, whatever.

I never went to business school. I was just bumbling through a lot of my life. I was like the guy behind the curtain in The Wizard of Oz.

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

We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.

I haven't had any formal training, but I guess dance comes naturally to us - people from the north. See how much we dance at weddings.

Experiments show that children in unsupervised groups are capable of answering questions many years ahead of the material they're learning in school. In fact, they seem to enjoy the absence of adult supervision, and they are very confident of finding the right answer.

If you grow up playing in church, it removes a lot of the boundaries that other musicians might have, growing up with sheet music or whatever.