Charlie Chaplin
The great genius of comedy had this to say about his formal education:
“If only someone had used salesmanship, had read a stimulating preface to each study that could have titilated my mind, infused me with fancy instead of facts, amused and intrigued me with the legerdemain of numbers, romanticized maps, given me a point of view about history and taught me the music of poetry, I might have become a scholar.”
But then, we wouldn’t have had the Chaplin we know and love.