Michael Moschen Quotes

I educated myself. To me, school was boring.

Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.

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.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

I soon gave up instruction for self-teaching.

School seemed unimportant, since I learned so much more on my own.

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

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

I like to learn on my own.

I think a lot of people have grown up with the idea that they can't learn things themselves. They think they need an institution to provide them with knowledge and teach them how to do things. I couldn't disagree more.

My parents would say to me, 'You can teach yourself anything better than someone else can teach it to you.' That was the whole ethos of my family.

I discover a lot of things on my own.

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.

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 am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

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.

I'm entirely self-taught, which I think is both a blessing and a curse.

Education is what you must acquire without any interference from your schooling.

I pretty much left full-time, formal education when I was 11, so that was when I was taken out of the school system... The longest stretch I would go back for was a term and a half when I was about 14.

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

I had no training in research as such, and as a consequence, I am, in a sense, self-taught.

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.