Quotes About Autodidact

I studied history and English in college, got a master's in writing, but I was always sort of an autodidact in science.

My father taught me Basic and rudimentary C, I learned everything else on my own, including studying computational complexity on my own. That's more a function of my age than anything else though - back when I was in school there were hardly any programming classes.

Being self-taught is no disgrace; but being self-certified is another matter.

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.

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

The world-wide discrimination against the autodidact has vitiated many people's confidence in determining their own goals and needs. But the same discrimination has also resulted in a multiplicity of growing minorities who are infuriated by this insidious dispossession.

Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.

An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, 'What's your alma mater?' I told him, 'Books.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college.

I learned English by watching soaps as a kid, and since I don't have any formal education and can't teach at the universities like other literary writers do.

No hay nada más confuso que un engreído autodidacta con poder que no sabe lo que no sabe

If he was indeed an "autodidact," there's no doubt he had the world's shittiest teacher.

If he was indeed an "autodidact," there's no doubt he had the world's shittiest teacher.

La guitarra siempre me quedó grande, me sonaban sucios los acordes, demasiadas cuerdas para tener en cuenta, demasiadas notas en ese puente. Para un autodidacta, para el que toca de oído como yo, el ukelele es ideal. Entendí que prefería tocar bien el ukelele que seguir tocando mal la guitarra, y eso fue como una nueva filosofía personal. Si no podés con la vida, probá con la vidita.