Top 1200 Formal Education Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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.

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

When I was supposed to go to a certified kindergarten that's supposed to teach you actual things like how to read, I went to a daycare that my parents thought was a kindergarten. I was Crayola-ing inside the lines with no fundamental education at all. So I walked into the first grade with no formal education at all.

There are many types of education: formal education, street education, personal education, experiential education, and I've found that I've had different partners who have a lot of wonderful intellect and education from all different types of sources.

My father was born in the year 1900 in South Carolina, and he grew up at a time where being an African-American child in the American South was to be deprived of access to anything close to a reasonable education. He only had three years of formal education, but he was self-taught. He read two newspapers a day.

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.

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.

My mom and dad, although they may not have had a lot of formal education, they were two of the most brilliant people that I know.

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

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!

My parents came from lower-class British backgrounds. But they worked hard and, without formal education, made it where they are today.

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

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.

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

I started my first company when I was 18 and learned by trial through fire, having no formal education or entrepreneurial experience.

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.

Most poetry is very formal, but when a modern poet is formal he gets more attention for it than old poets did.

The language that photography has is a formal language. Any photographer is doing something formal. If it's formal, then it must be an aesthetic way to communicate.

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

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.

I was 17 and living on the streets. I had the education of technically an eighth-grader, but in reality, I had never had a formal education.

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

At the moment I would like to emphasize the need for vocational training, for non-formal education in Burma to help all those young people who have suffered from a bad education. They have to be trained to earn their living. They have to have enough education vocational training to be able to set up respectable lives for themselves.

My formal education as an extension to my college degree in journalism was the time that I spent working with the student newspaper. I would argue that my greatest education occurred by working for the student newspaper. It wasn't necessarily the classroom work that made my formal education special. It was the idea that I had the opportunity to practice it before I went into the real world.

Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.

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 persons who have achieved fame and success in the world of ideas are cynical about formal education. These people are a select few, who often achieved success in spite of their education, or even without it. As has been said, the clever largely educate themselves, those less able aren't sufficiently clever or imaginative to benefit much from education.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Lunch is formal - that's when my husband and I have our dates. And dinner is formal: we sit down every day with the kids at seven o' clock.

My father had very little formal education.

I don't dissuade people from formal education. What I encourage them to do is to follow their dreams.

Of course each citizen should try to educate him or herself, but only after receiving some essential, basic blocks of knowledge. Formal education should always be free; from kindergarten to PhD. It is free in many European countries, and in several Latin American ones (including Cuba, Mexico and Argentina). China is returning to free education, as it is returning to universal health care. In countries like Chile, people are on the streets right now fighting for free education, and they are winning!

State educators have confused the length of formal education with real-life skills.

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

Formal is formal. I can't wear sneakers all the time. Sometimes, I wear other shoes. It's not my challenge designing formal - it's so boring - but it's still important. I sell a lot of classic black sneakers made from every material because everyone loves black, and if you mix and match material, you get an opera.

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

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

The right answer on raises is you have to be formal. You have to be formal to save your own culture.

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

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

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.

Going to school and formal education wasn't all that impactful to me, but it was the people that I met at school that really made such a difference.

My father gave me formal education in raagdari. He died in Lahore in 1964 when I was 13. I was in the tenth year of school, and my father's brother took me into the qawwali ensemble and started giving me formal education in qawwali.

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.

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

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

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

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 felt the need to unlearn my formal education.

Ashok Mehta did not go to any institute. He did not carry the baggage of formal education.

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

My father left school at the age of fourteen, so this was a man with no deep experience of formal education.

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

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. A successful business owner never stops learning. They educate themselves on the things they need to learn, and they never stop growing. They never arrive at a certain point and think, ahhh... now I don't need to learn anymore.

As a physician, we are taught that learning and education never stop - they are lifelong. I think education comes in various forms: formal, informal, and most importantly, experiential. All of this defines who we are and gives us if you will our abilities to function as leaders. I believe all of those pieces constitute formal education - it is invaluable to who we are and how well we perform.

I didn't have much of a formal education myself.

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 formal education that I received made little sense to me.

The job of formal methods is to elucidate the assumptions upon which formal correctness depends.