Shannon Tweed Quotes

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

I believe that whenever I want to learn something I can learn it much better and faster by myself if I'm motivated to learn it as opposed to kind of doing it in more a standard, institutionalized way.

I'm not a trained actor. I'm someone who is autodidactic and learned on my own.

I educated myself. To me, school was boring.

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

I like to learn on my own.

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

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.

Learning in our family was entirely self-directed.

Almost everything I've been paid to do was something that was largely self-taught.

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

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.

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

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

I know how to learn anything I want to learn. I absolutely know that I could learn how to fly the space shuttle because someone else knows how to fly it, and they put it in a book. Give me the book, and I do not need somebody to stand up in front of the class.

I was learning things in school rather than learning how to teach myself, which is what you have to do in life, so I just abandoned it and did ceramics for a year and a half.

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

I soon gave up instruction for self-teaching.

Many people who excel are self-taught.

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

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.

Begin by instructing yourself, then you will receive instruction from others.

Philosophers have long conceded, however, that every man has two educators: 'that which is given to him, and the other that which he gives himself. Of the two kinds the latter is by far the more desirable. Indeed all that is most worthy in man he must work out and conquer for himself. It is that which constitutes our real and best nourishment. What we are merely taught seldom nourishes the mind like that which we teach ourselves.

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