Formal Education Quotes
Questioning what classroom schooling really teaches us.
One musician credits their father, not a classroom, for a formal grounding in raagdari passed down before an uncle brought them into a qawwali ensemble. Others are far more skeptical, echoing doubts you'll also find in Brainy quotes.
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Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.
I graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Communications and left formal education behind.
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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.
I started my first company when I was 18 and learned by trial through fire, having no formal education or entrepreneurial experience.
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...
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.
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.
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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.
State educators have confused the length of formal education with real-life skills.
I owe the little formal education I got to my drama teacher, Mr. Pickett, who got us to read Shakespeare, Moliere, and other classics.
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...
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A sharper line even argues formal schooling can fortify stupidity rather than cure it. For more on family teaching and self-made knowledge, see Brother quotes and Behind quotes.
