Advanced Learning Quotes

The only 'good' learning is that which is in advance of development.

I had two brilliant children and one genius. Elon could figure out things when he was very young and was always advanced for his age. He could hold a conversation about something that was way beyond his years, and he read voraciously.

I was, like, forty at birth. When I wasn't even a year old, I spoke, I was potty trained, I walked and talked. That was it. Then I started school and drove everybody crazy because they realized I had popped out as an adult. I had adult questions and wanted adult answers.

When, in school, they were teaching algebra, I was studying differential equations at home.

I went to NYU undergrad, then went to AFI for grad school.

It's kind of ironic that if I get my Ph.D., I'll be a real doctor.

I'm a highly-educated man, maybe a shocker to some. I have a master's degree. I'm no dumbo.

I finished all the math books by third grade and most of the reading books. So I was considered disruptive.

I plan on getting my Ph.D. from the city of Stockton.

I skipped kindergarten because I was reading at a pretty high level. That's a weird and cocky thing to say, but I was real sharp, and I knew that early on.

All the students have shown more advance in two months of summer study than they have in a year of ordinary instruction, largely due to their free and wholesome life in the open air.

...neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the same science, and ascend not to a higher science.

So in my sophomore year, I took a senior anatomy class. I thought anatomy - being the thing that I should be most interested in - and if I could hack, as we called it, a senior class, I would continue. I didn't hack the senior class.

All through the student years, I was at the top of my class although I was two years younger than everybody else.

High school was interesting, because I went from a public school middle school to an academy where the first year we were doing Latin, chemistry, biology. I mean, I was woefully unprepared for the type of study.

I was quite nerdy at school. I skipped a year and won a scholarship in chemistry.

The completion of my undergraduate training at the University of California (Berkeley) provided just the needed touches of rigor at advanced levels in both economics and mathematics.

In some ways I've gone to Cash and Carter graduate school.

Whatever subject I choose, I do a PhD in it.