Formal Education Quotes

40 quotes by 37 authors

Never let formal education get in the way of your learning. — Mark Twain
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… — Roger Moore
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… — Arthur Ashe
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… — B.F. Skinner
The very concept of universal formal education is a product (and a relatively late product) of the capitalist world-economy. — Immanuel Wallerstein
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… — Arnold Schwarzenegger
I think the ultimate challenge is to have some kind of style and grace, even though you haven't got money, or standing in society, or… — Madonna Ciccone
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,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
I learned from my mom and dad, who didn't have a formal education but had doctorates of love. They told me that if you gave… — Dick Vitale
Many people keep deploring the low level of formal education in the United states (as defined by, say, math grades). Yet these fail to realize… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Communications and left formal education behind. — Sarah Zettel
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… — Robert B. Laughlin
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… — Frank Sinatra
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… — Strive Masiyiwa
My hope and wish is that one day, formal education will pay attention to what I call 'education of the heart'. — Dalai Lama
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… — Ella Baker
One must search diligently to find laudatory comments on education (other than those pious platitudes which are fodder for commencement speeches). It appears that most… — Edward Gibbon
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
My father had very little formal education. — Daniel Berrigan
The one quality which sets one man apart from another- the key which lifts one to every aspiration while others are caught up in the… — Theodore Roosevelt

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