7 Bobby Fischer Quotes on Learning

Bobby Fischer quotes on learning

43. You don't learn anything in school. It's just a waste of time. You lug around books and all and do homework. They give too much homework. You shouldn't be doing homework. Nobody's interested in it. The teachers are stupid. They shouldn't have any women in there. They don't know how to teach. And they shouldn't make anyone go to school. You don't want to go, you don't go, that's all. It's ridiculous. I don't remember one thing I learned in school. I don't listen to weakies. My two and a half years in Erasmus High I wasted. I didn't like the whole thing. You have to mix with all those stupid kids. The teachers are even stupider than the kids. They talk down to the kids. Half of them are crazy. If they'd have let me, I would have quit before I was sixteen.

47. My sister bought me a set at a candy store and taught me the moves.

56. You can only get good at chess if you love the game.

67. That's chess, you know. One day you give a lesson, the next day your opponent gives you a lesson.

77. I know people who have all the will in the world, but still can't play good chess.

83. For the first lesson, I want you to play over every column of Modern Chess Openings, including the footnotes. And for the next lesson, I want you to do it again.

94. You know I'm finished with the old chess because it's all just a lot of book and memorization you know.