Frank McCourt Quotes

I could not agree more. The students of Delaware State often looked to the school as their chance, their hand up, their hope. And they gave their all.

I come from a modest background. I put myself through college and law school and a postdoctorate program in tax law.

I have to teach myself. I kind of wish I'd continued with my education, but that's something I can do in the future.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

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.

I'm a good learner. I am fond of reading and educating myself all the time.

I mean, it's the life lessons that I suppose you learn that nobody gets a free ride and that you do the best you can with the means that you can and try to open yourself to as much knowledge and all that that you can.

I started life washing cars in Canada before moving on to selling life insurance and vacuum cleaners. Later, I went through a programme by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, which literally changed my life. It was the turning point.

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.

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

I went to graduate school with zero expectation. I kind of backed into it. I wanted to go back to school because I felt gaps in my literary background. I studied mostly twentieth-century English literature in college, so I thought, 'Maybe I'll go back for my writing.'

I was sitting on the bus, and the sign said if you're ready to better your life, come to Medgar Evers College, and I got off the bus and went to Medgar Evers College.

I'm a girl who loves to share information, especially empowering, life-changing, information.

Now, I've changed my life to make sure I work only on what I love.

Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.

My knowledge and thirst for knowledge has no expiration date... It goes until I'm dead. I will be learning and studying from youth, as well as people older than me... Having degrees as a person of color in this country is the one thing that can't nobody take away from me.

Mom was 50 when my Dad died. She got on a bus every weekday for years, and rode 40 miles each morning to Madison. She earned a new degree and learned new skills to start her small business. It wasn't just a new livelihood. It was a new life.

Life has changed enormously, and I hope - I hope more people read good things.

I just want to be educated.

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'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say I did it.

I didn't go to school much, so I taught myself what I knew from reading.

It feels important to go school; not necessarily to further my education, but more like a hobby.

Anyone can be self-educated if they find the loose end of something to care about passionately.