Megan Fox Quotes

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

I didn't go to high school, and I didn't go to grade school either. Education, I think, is for refinement and is probably a liability.

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.

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

You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.

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.

I educate myself, but I haven't got the time or patience to enlist myself in a degree course. The world is my school.

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.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

One of the things that is very silly - and I hear from educators all the time - is that schools essentially teach kids to learn. They don't need school for that. Learning is what they do best.

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

I educated myself. To me, school was boring.

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

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.

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

I didn't have much of a formal education myself.

Here's the thing: I consider myself pretty well - for somebody that didn't go to high school, pretty well educated.

I listen to Radio 4 all the time. I didn't go to university, so that's my further education.

I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university.

I will get my education - if it is in home, school, or anyplace.

I never went to university. I'm self-educated. I didn't go because I was too impatient, too arrogant.

I actually went to film school, but I didn't like it. I'm basically self-taught.

My father had very little formal education.

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