Quotes About Autodidact

I began drawing when I was nearly 3, and after finishing the sixth grade, I left school to paint and was tutored at home. My father didn't think a formal education was necessary for a painter.

You know, I grew up very self-taught.

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

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves -- you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.

I'm self-taught. I didn't just become a man, it was a decision.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.

First let a man teach himself, and then he will be taught by others.

"Self-taught, are you?" Julian Castle asked Newt. "Isn't everybody?" Newt inquired. "Very good answer." Castle was respectful.

I never took a computer science course in college, because then it was a thing you just learned on your own.

primarily the individual is going to study at home.

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. The only function of a school is to make self-education easier; failing that, it does nothing.

Everything I know and everything I got, I had to teach myself.

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

I just be teaching myself.

My father was an autodidact. It wasn't a middle-class house. Shopkeepers are aspirant. He paid for me to go to private school. He was denied an education - he had a horrible childhood. He got a place at a grammar school and wasn't allowed to go.

I have been expelled from five different schools when I was a kid. And I learned basically all what I do by myself.

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

Isaac Asimov escribió: «La educación autodidacta es, creo firmemente, el único tipo de educación que existe».

If you are an autodidact, you probably do write more in the rhythm of speech rather than having learnt prose.

Where there is no initiation, there is the autodidact. Anyone for whom knowledge is not wisdom transmitted through experience is enrolled in a university that is a correspondence course.

Like Ben Franklin, Hamilton was mostly self-taught and probably snatched every spare moment to read. The

A fatherless boy raised in Jim Crow Texas, my dad was a tenacious autodidact, the first in his family to get a college degree.

My older brother bought textbooks and was able to teach himself enough to go to college. When I was 16, he returned and told me to do the same thing.

Every person of learning is finally his own teacher.