Formal Education Quotes

Formal Education Quote of the day

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.

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

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.

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

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

So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.'

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

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.

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

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

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

I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education.

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.

With self-discipline, all things are possible

My father had very little formal education.

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

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

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

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

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

By the time I entered this prestigious high school, my interest in formal education had already been exhausted.

By the time I was eight I was taking classical piano lessons and I wanted to be a concert pianist. But that didn't work out. I graduated from high school and my formal education ended.

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

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.

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

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

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.

How could we have improved ourselves, if we had not dared to read, learn and write?

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

Everyone must be given the opportunity to think, read and write.

True education begins after you are done with formal education.

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

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