The 72-year-old musician made the comments while taking part in a Q&A on his website, reported BBC.
"We never studied anything, we just loved our popular music. I think for us, we'd have felt it would have ruined it to study it," he said.
However, McCartney conceded that classes incorporating The Beatles' music were "kind of a cool idea" and "very flattering".
"To be told - as I was years ago now - that The Beatles were in my kid's history books? That was like 'What?! Unbelievable, man!" he said.
"It may be that you use [pop music courses] to teach other people about the history, that's all valuable. But to think that you can go to a college and come out like Bob Dylan? Someone like Bob Dylan, you can't make.