Alternative Education Quotes

When I grew up, I was just another kid who wasn't going to college.

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.

Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.

This is going to sound weird, but I never went to normal school; I went to online school.

To middle-class parents, the project team may have seemed unfit for children, but it was exactly what I needed.

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

You know, I went to Oberlin. At that time, grades were - you elected to have them or not. It was all of that era where grades were out the window. But I did very well in school. I didn't really study the arts; I practiced the arts.

Apparently almost anyone can do a better job of educating children than our so-called 'educators' in the public schools. Children who are home-schooled by their parents also score higher on tests than children educated in the public schools. ... Successful education shows what is possible, whether in charter schools, private schools, military schools or home-schooling. The challenge is to provide more escape hatches from failing public schools, not only to help those students who escape, but also to force these institutions to get their act together before losing more students and jobs.

My brother was older, very bright. He went to university. I wasn't academically bright - maybe at first, when I was little, but it was lost. I started doing a drama workshop and got really into it, then I did a BTec in performing arts and started to work.

Basically, my socialization as a child didn't come from any schooling; it came from being in theater and meeting people online.

I didn't live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don't know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.

I got a GED based on Catholic school seventh-grade education, really. I didn't make it that far.

I educated myself. To me, school was boring.

I always say that failure was my friend. I learned nothing at school, so I just lived in my own world.

I've learnt more physics from Kabbalah than I ever did in school.

Drop out of the public schools. The public schools cannot be compromised with.

People in Detroit aren't just urban gardening. They're starting a new mode of education. They're trying to give children the education to be "solutionaries" rather than people who are going to get jobs in the system. And that is a huge change, a cultural revolution. The things that are happening in Detroit would amaze you if you're used to only looking at statistics, and only thinking of blacks as sufferers and not as activists.

School's a weird thing. I'm not sure it works.

I didn't go to university. I didn't go to culinary school, barely made it through high school.

I loathed every day and regret every day I spent in school. I like to be taught to read and write and add and then be left alone.

I'm not much of a math and science guy. I spent most of my time in school daydreaming and managed to turn it into a living.

Top performers in their fields such as Debbie Moore, Jean-Christophe Novelli, Deborah Meaden and Jo Malone, did not go to university and are just a handful of the individuals who show that with drive and determination, you can succeed by treading your own path.

The phenomenon of home schooling is a wonderful example of the American can-do attitude. Growing numbers of parents have become disenchanted with government-run public schools. Many parents have simply taken matters into their own hands, literally.

The public school system is damned. Let me tell you how radical I am. Christian students should be in Christian schools. If you have to sell your car, live in a smaller house, or work a night job, put your child in Christian schools. If you can't afford it, homeschool.

I'm one of six kids, and the eight of us lived for over a decade in either a bus or a boat.