Chloe Grace Moretz Says She Does Not Want To Attend College

By R. Siva Kumar - 11 May '16 09:43AM
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Chloe Grace Moretz is 19, but turned into a celebrity four years ago with 2010's "Kick Ass".

But she wants to stick it out in Hollywood instead of focusing on academics like her peers, Natalie Portman, Emma Watson and Jodie Foster, who had all taken a break from films in order to concentrate on their studies.

As she had been home schooled since she was 9 years old, she does not want to attend college.

"I love education," Moretz said in a recent interview. "It's always been a huge part of my life. I've always really prided myself on being a smart young woman. But the problem I have with it right now is that I've made all my own money since I was a kid, and I just really don't agree with our educational system right now, with the fact that I would have to be spending so much of my hard-earned money to go to college to get a higher education.

"To honestly end up resenting the entire experience because I'm paying it back for the next 10 to 15 years...I just feel like right now, it doesn't make any sense to me, until we get some real education reform."

Getting a higher education in America today is a "very big issue right now," she said. Her "Neighbors" show gave her an insight into the problems facing college kids today---such as the limitations on female-oriented college institutes.

"We were looking into sororities and we found the crazy idea that sororities aren't allowed to throw parties," Moretz said. "That was totally something I wanted to talk about."

Moretz, the A-lister who is dating Brooklyn Beckam, said that like her character Shelby in 'Neighbours', she cringes at the regulations that have governed Greek life and college on the whole, which she finds "unfair and limiting."

"The problem with a lot of these institutionalized things [and even] Hollywood and sororities are that these things are run based on tradition, and we tend to fit molds," she said. "Even now, it's like we tend to try and fit the mold of the 'tough girl, the girls who're trying to be progressive, or a girl who is being forthright'...what I've always believed in for my life is to do what you feel is pertinent and do what you feel is relevant."

She does not want to attend college soon.

"I took it into my own hands once I got out of high school to teach myself and educate myself and learn about things I want to learn about, and travel, and kinda self-educate," she said.

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