Milton Friedman Quotes

From my grandfather's father, I learned to dispense with attendance at public schools, and to enjoy good teachers at home, and to recognize that on such things money should be eagerly spent.

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

I was home-schooled my entire life and never been in a classroom.

I didn't read much in high school, maybe because I didn't go to high school. Instead, I worked.

My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.

Actually, all education is self-education. A teacher is only a guide, to point out the way, and no school, no matter how excellent, can give you education. What you receive is like the outlines in a child’s coloring book. You must fill in the colors yourself.

It is imperative for US to parent our children and educate them outside of the school systems, as our education system was not designed to lift US out of oppression.

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 didn't go to school a full year until I was 11 or 12, so I lived in books. I really was an observer of life.

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

Five years ago, Samira did not want to continue in the regular school system in Iran. To help her with her education, I set up a home school. It wasn't just for my family, it was open to other friends.

I was home-schooled.

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.

I was home schooled, so I never got a yearbook.

I prefer home school because you learn more by yourself than when you're around other people because you get distracted.

It is home schooling that is rejecting a narrowness. It is not a radical value system; it's actually quite conservative.

I didn't go to high school, so I don't have a high school experience. I was home-schooled during high school.

What I learned I learned on my own. I didn't have much school. Three years.

I've been homeschooled since ninth grade.

When we home schooled my oldest, Jasper, in eighth grade, I saw how empowering it is for a child to learn in their own way. That rebooted my thinking about education.

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

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.

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

Well, I was actually home-schooled because I was already acting.

Being home-schooled, you really get to explore your hobbies, what you want to do for a living.