Quotes About Formal Education

#1. Formal education opens the world to you; contemplation and reflection open yourself to you.

Debasish Mridha

#2. I remember that - you know, I didn't receive a formal education. I was educated in the Montevideo cafe, in the cafes of Montevideo. There, I received my first lessons in the art of telling stories, storytelling.

Eduardo Galeano

#3. Neither formal education, desire, hard work, nor being a good person guarantees success... the most important key to success is self-motivation. And a consciously chosen vision of the future is a powerful aid to motivate yourself.

Phil Laut

#4. In terms of formal education, I may somewhat lacking. I never finished school. I am a self-taught entrepreneur, that's the best kind there is, trust me

Aravind Adiga

#5. I'm a school teacher, and later on, well past my formal education, I became very interested in science.

Bernard Beckett

#6. Formal education enhances what you do, self-education nourishes who you are.

Auliq Ice

#7. I began observing, making paintings of my surroundings, taking a vow of silence, listening, composing music, writing, and making time for formal education. Then I started telling stories.

John Francis

#8. Oppressed people, whatever their level of formal education, have the ability to understand and interpret the world around them, to see the world for what it is, and move to transform it.

Ella Baker

#9. I enjoyed my formal education but I appreciate my acquired specific knowledge alot.

Anyaele Sam Chiyson

#10. If you are working or you are running a business you have to set aside time and money to invest in your continued formal education and skills acquisition.

Strive Masiyiwa

#11. Formal education and current position can define your worthiness. What makes you extraordinary is defined by your attitude towards others.

Ashish Patel

#12. My dad didn't have a formal education, but he had a wonderful vocabulary. So in 'Harvest,' I wanted my main character to be an innately intelligent man who would have the vocabulary to say whatever he wanted in the same way as lots of working-class people can.

Jim Crace

#13. Many instructional arrangements seem "contrived," but there is nothing wrong with that. It is the teacher's function to contrive conditions under which students learn. It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.

B.F. Skinner

#14. Sizing up succinctly his lack of formal education compared with his determination to learn from others, the author writes, I went to college with every person I ever met.

Chris Gardner

#15. Rich People are students throughout their life. Poor People's learning stops after formal education.

Abhishek Kumar

#16. My hope and wish is that one day, formal education will pay attention to what I call 'education of the heart'.

Dalai Lama

#17. My mother, who was professional schoolteacher, was particularly concerned about our formal education and even went so far as to start a private school together with some other parents so that our intellectual needs would be met.

Robert B. Laughlin

#18. It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Albert Einstein

#19. I grow tired of intelligence having such a limited manifestation in movies - "intelligence" usually meaning coastal, with a certain level of formal education.

Edward Norton

#20. It appeared clear to me - partly because of the lies that filled my history textbooks - that the intent of formal education was to inculcate obedience to a social order that did not deserve my loyalty. Defiance seemed the only dignified response to the adult world.

Timothy B. Tyson

#21. It is one of the strangest anomalies of life that the absence of fear, and not formal education or brilliance of mind, is the major cause of individual success.

Napoleon Hill

#22. There are several things I think I would have done if I had the chance again. I would have been a little more patient about getting out into the world. I would have seen to it that I had a more formal education. I would have become an accomplished mu

Frank Sinatra

#23. I began drawing when I was nearly 3, and after finishing the sixth grade, I left school to paint and was tutored at home. My father didn't think a formal education was necessary for a painter.

Jamie Wyeth

#24. My father had very little formal education.

Daniel Berrigan

#25. The trend is that, over the years, there will be a growing disconnection between what you learn at a university, for example, and what you will practice in the market, making formal education just a necessary step.

Alexandre Magno

#26. The process of discovery (or innovation, or technological progress) itself depends on antifragile tinkering, aggressive risk bearing rather than formal education.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#27. I haven't had any formal education. Through the grace of god, I am gifted in mathematics and the English language.

Shakuntala Devi

#28. The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Maya Angelou

#29. Throughout my formal education I spent many, many hours in public and school libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were. The current definitive answer to almost any question can be found within the four walls of most libraries.

Arthur Ashe

#30. 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.

Kola Boof

#31. Self-taught are those without formal education. Most self-taught artists have missing ingredients to their work.

Billy Cannon

#32. As a child who grew up in a grassy field, enjoying little formal education, I know virtually nothing about literary theories and have had to rely solely upon my own experiences and intuitive understanding of the world to write.

Mo Yan

#33. A formal education will teach you how to conform with society. Self-education will teach you how to get out of conformity so that you can fill your life with adventure and beauty.

Debasish Mridha

#34. A formal education will give you knowledge; self-education will give you wisdom.

Debasish Mridha

#35. I am not a chef. I can't claim that title. The difference is a cook doesn't have a degree. A chef has formal education. It has nothing to do with talent or actual preparation - one just can't claim the title if you don't have degree.

Anna Pump

#36. The very concept of universal formal education is a product (and a relatively late product) of the capitalist world-economy.

Immanuel Wallerstein

#37. I didn't get a high school diploma. I really didn't have much of an education, which left me open to educating myself throughout my life, without the limitations on intellectual curiosity a formal education can impose. I followed what interested me.

Elayne Boosler

#38. I admired Hitler, for instance, because he came from being a little man with almost no formal education, up to power. I admire him for being such a good public speaker and for what he did with it.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#39. I graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Communications and left formal education behind.

Sarah Zettel

#40. I've never been a big believer in formal education.

Megan Fox

#41. The formal education that I received made little sense to me.

Twyla Tharp

#42. Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

Jim Rohn

#43. I realized that as a thinking person his advantage lay precisely in his lack of formal education. Nobody told him what to think, and thus he was free to think clearly.

Peter Hessler

#44. But to this day - I'm very literate now, I love to read, I read constantly - words don't resonate the way they do to a person with a formal education. They're like a maze, a puzzle that has to be opened up.

Lance Henriksen

#45. Human memory, they say, is like a coat closet: The most enduring outcome of a formal education is that it creates rows of coat hooks so that later on, when you come upon a new piece of information, you have a hook to hang it on. Without a hook, the new information falls on the floor.

Ursula Goodenough

#46. Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#47. I never got a formal education. So my intellect is my common sense. I don't have anything else going for me. And my common sense opens the door to instinct.

Jerry Lewis

#48. Formal education teaches how to stand, but to see the rainbow you must come out and walk many steps on your own.

Amit Ray

#49. Spatial intelligence is virtually left out of formal education. In kindergarten we give children blocks and sand with which to build. Then we take those things away for the next twelve years of their education and expect kids to be architects and engineers.

Ann Lewin-Benham

#50. In a setting of formal education, one would imagine that abstract thought would be encouraged, and that questioning obvious errors within the current system wouldn't be frowned upon. Wrong again; these cunts are out to protect their pocket books and paradigms.

Scott Parker

#51. I understood a powerful fact: formal education gets you a job, but self-education is what makes you rich! The

Jim Rohn

#52. I owe the little formal education I got to my drama teacher, Mr. Pickett, who got us to read Shakespeare, Moliere, and other classics.

Dennis Quaid

#53. Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.

Mark Twain

#54. Formal education gets you a job, but self-education is what makes you rich!

Jim Rohn

#55. My dad was a composer and a musician, but he never finished high school. His formal education was rather minimal from the standards of today's college graduates and Ph.D.'s, but he had a deep interest in questions of science and questions of the universe.

Brian Greene

#56. The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education.

Paul E. Gray

#57. I should say a student does well to remain one as long as he can. It seems to me very doubtful that formal education could ever harm a potential artist - of course, it won't make him one either.

Truman Capote

#58. Knowledge is not just the preserve of the educated elite. Just because someone has not had a formal education, that does not mean he does not have wisdom and common sense.

Vikas Swarup

#59. These kids were smart, they were enthusiastic, and they were young enough so that the schools hadn't destroyed all their interest in learning. They could still actually use their brains, which in Thorne's view was a sure sign they hadn't yet completed a formal education.

Michael Crichton

#60. I pretty much left full-time, formal education when I was 11, so that was when I was taken out of the school system ... The longest stretch I would go back for was a term and a half when I was about 14.

Daniel Radcliffe

#61. Formal education makes you a living, self-education makes you a legend.

Habeeb Akande

#62. Over the next two years UNICEF will focus on improving access to and the quality of education to provide children who have dropped out of school or who work during school hours the opportunity to gain a formal education!

Roger Moore

#63. I lack formal education. So I'm left with the feeling that I'm smarter than everyone around me but that if I ever got around really smart people - people who went to universities and drank wine and spoke Latin - that they'd be bored as hell by me. It's a lonely way to go through life.

Gillian Flynn

#64. The brainy class is made up of individuals who think for themselves and beyond formal education are continuous learners who tend to be self-taught.

Maximillian Degenerez

#65. The goal of formal education has always been to produce people who could continue to learn on their own.

Ronald Gross

#66. Formal education will earn you a living. Self-education will earn you a fortune." Jim Rohn

Joanna Penn

#67. Everyone is influenced by those things that precede formal education, that come out of the blue and out of everyday life.

Rebecca Solnit

#68. I wonder in what way I would function as a person, in a society without ever attending school. I'd be myself.

J.R. Rim

#69. When I enrolled in college at age 19, I had a total of eight years of formal classroom education. As a result, I was not comfortable with formal lectures and receiving regular homework assignments.

Philip Emeagwali

#70. My chief job is to constantly stir or rekindle the curiosity of people that gets driven out by bureaucracy and formal schooling systems.

Akio Morita

#71. Without any formal personal finance education or trustworthy resources to tell them otherwise, the majority of people in the 18-to-24-year-old age bracket do not know how to use credit effectively, tackle debt or make wise decisions when it comes to spending.

Alexa Von Tobel

#72. The present syllabus in our high schools corresponds almost exactly to what was known in 1640.

W.W. Sawyer

#73. Formal learning is like riding a bus: the driver decides where the bus is going; the passengers are along for the ride. Informal learning is like riding a bike: the rider chooses the destination, the speed, and the route.

Jay Cross

#74. Human intelligence is richer and more dynamic than we have been led to believe by formal academic education.

Ken Robinson

#75. Every child should be taught how to think, read and write.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#76. With self-discipline, all things are possible

Theodore Roosevelt

#77. Not the formal schooling but the journey through the life is the best teacher.

Debasish Mridha

#78. Ressentiment must therefore be strongest in a society like ours, where approximately equal rights (political and otherwise) or formal social equality, publicly recognized, go hand in hand with wide factual differences in power, property, and education.

Max Scheler

#79. Education should be a lifelong process, the formal period serving as a foundation on which life's structure may rest and rise.

Robert H. Jackson

#80. It is clearly absurd to limit the term 'education' to a person's formal schooling.

Murray N. Rothbard

#81. There must be a profound recognition that parents are the first teachers and that education begins before formal schooling and is deeply rooted in the values, traditions, and norms of family and culture.

Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

#82. [Homeschooling] ... recipe for genius: More of family and less of school, more of parents and less of peers, more creative freedom and less formal lessons.

Raymond S. Moore

#83. Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance.

Hendrik Willem Van Loon

#84. Although I was raised Jewish, my upbringing didn't include any formal religious education or training.

Melissa Gilbert

#85. Whether one is formally educated or self educated; the cornerstone of success is education.

Will Foster