Quotes About Non Formal Education

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

Twyla Tharp

#2. 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

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

Ronald Gross

#4. 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

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

Joanna Penn

#6. 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

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

Rebecca Solnit

#8. 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

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

Murray N. Rothbard

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

Mark Twain

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

Immanuel Wallerstein

#12. 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

#13. 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

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

Sarah Zettel

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

Megan Fox

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

Jim Rohn

#17. 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

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

Jim Rohn

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. [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

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. 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

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

Amit Ray

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

Melissa Gilbert

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

Will Foster

#29. 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

#30. 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