Cornelius Vanderbilt Quotes

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom.

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

Whatever education I got was from experience and reading. But I also realize I wouldn't pass my friend's sixth-grade class.

Are any of us self-taught? It just means I didn't go to school for it. But you do have teachers. You have mentors.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college.

Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.

I try never to let my schooling get in the way of my education.

I learned just by going around. I know all about Kleenex factories, and all sorts of things.

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

I've never been a big believer in formal education.

There's a lot out there for me to learn that isn't in college, so I think it's fine for me if I don't go yet.

The brainy class is made up of individuals who think for themselves and beyond formal education are continuous learners who tend to be self-taught.

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 used to be really insecure about my self-education. I'm definitely always learning. But there's many ways to learn. There are many, many ways to always be a learner.

I began drawing when I was nearly 3, and after finishing the sixth grade, I left school to paint and was tutored at home. My father didn't think a formal education was necessary for a painter.

I have two tutors - a maths tutor and another tutor who does all the other subjects. It is part of the deal with myself; I really want to finish school. I like learning and education, and I think it is really important.

Mom worked as a school librarian, and she felt summers were for education.

We prepare children to learn how to learn, not how to take a test.

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.

The idea of education has been so tied to schools, universities, and professors that many assume there is no other way, but education is available to anyone within reach of a library, a post office, or even a newsstand.

There's a bunch of stuff I want to learn. Instead of waiting around on set all day, I'd rather be learning something cool.

I had never attended high school, but I was fairly well read.

I can't learn in school, but I can learn from somebody who I think is cool and great.

Ashok Mehta did not go to any institute. He did not carry the baggage of formal education.