Chris Raschka Quotes

I soon gave up instruction for self-teaching.

I can't remember ever being told how to ride.

To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.

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 learned to walk as a baby, and I haven't had a lesson since.

You can not do what you want to do unless you know the correct technique. The only other way you can learn how to do it is by doing it yourself, which would take twice as long than if you went to school.

I bought one of those Learn How to Play Guitar Chords By Yourself and it shows you the diagram where to put your hands and I took that in my room, sat with my singles and learned how to play guitar.

I always believe that a person can learn so much by just jumping into something and trying to do it rather than having someone else teach you everything.

I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.

I believe that whenever I want to learn something I can learn it much better and faster by myself if I'm motivated to learn it as opposed to kind of doing it in more a standard, institutionalized way.

I took lessons for about everything you could imagine - gymnastics to karate to flute and piano. My mom always definitely kept me in some kind of class or program, but for guitar, I kinda gave up on then kinda just taught myself. Same thing with piano. I've never been good with following lessons.

There were a lot of times people would do my makeup, and it would be awful, and I would be orange. Nothing matched. So then you learn how to do your own makeup. I watched a lot of YouTube videos when I was little and taught myself.

I like to learn on my own.

The sport itself is dangerous. Anything can happen.

I was mostly self-taught on guitar and that had its benefits. It's a great thing to work through problems on your own.

YouTube videos and practice have taught me all I know.

Accidents happen on the field.

Learning in our family was entirely self-directed.

I self-taught myself music at 19-20.

Almost everything I've been paid to do was something that was largely self-taught.

As an adult I discovered that I was a pretty good autodidact, and can teach myself all kind of things. And developed a great interest in a number of different things from how to build a street hot rod from the ground up to quantum mechanics, and those two different kinds of mechanics, and it was really in the sciences, quantum mechanics, molecular biology, I would begin looking at these things looking for ideas, but in fact you don't read it for ideas you read it for curiosity and interest in the subject.

Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.

I am basically a pretty good autodidact. I can teach myself things.

Consequently, the only thing I learned in school was typing. In the old days, people like me who don't have college degrees had a hard time thriving in society. But today, the ability to learn on your own or from your peers has become really easy. I think this change is leading to a fundamental disruption in education. Independent and lifelong learning are really starting to peak - there is an inflection point coming around how people learn.