Philip Emeagwali Quotes

When you home study, you get a better education. I basically got to teach myself. Being naturally able to make my own opinions about the schoolwork I had to deal with, instead of being instructed under the tutelage of the teacher, was really nice academically.

Being homeschooled for half of my life allowed me to choose my own curriculum and find things I really enjoy, and that's kind of inspired me. I've always been intrigued in or interested in the topics I've been covering.

The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.

I prefer home-schooling because you can work at your own pace and go towards more what you're interested in, whether it be history or geography or math.

Being home schooled is awesome because you can make your own schedule, so as far as time management, it's up to you how much you get done and when you get it done. It's all got to get done; how you do it is up to you.

My teachers helped guide and motivate me; but the responsibility of learning was left with me, an approach to learning which was later reinforced by my experiences at Amherst.

I didn't live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don't know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.

I just follow the subjects I'm interested in.

I'm not going to sit here and go to college for something that I don't care about.

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?

There are no fixed notions on what I should pick up or follow, it has to first appeal to me.

I don't have a coach. I haven't had a coach for, like, years.

I am in an extended self-directed course of study. That is, I am in control of my own life.

Growth and mastery come only to those who vigorously self-direct. Initiating, creating, doing, reflecting, freely associating, enjoying privacy-these are precisely what the structures of schooling are set up to prevent, on one pretext or another.

I feel lucky in that I don't really have to go to college to study something job-specific. I just want to go to learn about what is interesting to me and learn about the classes that you don't really get to take in high school because you have to take the basics.

I continued to study Math and Physics on my own, but one and a half years later I realized that I did want to be a composer, and after that I never changed my mind.

Responsibility for learning belongs to the student, regardless of age.

There is no greater education than one that is self-driven.

Reading is the only area of my life in which I prefer to be non-autonomous.

Many people who excel are self-taught.

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

I am your original autodidact.

I knew I had to find my own way of teaching.

I never fought because of my father. I started to box before he pushed me. It had nothing to do with him.

I like to learn on my own.