Richard Branson Quotes

I educate myself, but I haven't got the time or patience to enlist myself in a degree course. The world is my school.

You cannot afford to confine your studies to the classroom. The universe and all of history is your classroom.

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

The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom.

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.

Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.

In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.

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

There's a lot out there for me to learn that isn't in college, so I think it's fine for me if I don't go yet.

I used to be really insecure about my self-education. I'm definitely always learning. But there's many ways to learn. There are many, many ways to always be a learner.

Whatever education I got was from experience and reading. But I also realize I wouldn't pass my friend's sixth-grade class.

Much of education can and should take place in schools and other formally designated community institutions. But the world beyond the schoolhouse is crucial to education, and both traditional and new media are more important than ever.

Are any of us self-taught? It just means I didn't go to school for it. But you do have teachers. You have mentors.

I can't learn in school, but I can learn from somebody who I think is cool and great.

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.

I certainly didn't learn anything in school. My education was the world.

Where are these rational practices to be taught and acquired? Not within the four walls of a bare building, in which formality predominates... But in the nursery, play-ground, fields, gardens, workshops, manufactures, museums and class-rooms. ...The facts collected from all these sources will be concentrated, explained, discussed, made obvious to all, and shown in their direct application to practice in all the business of life.

I wasn't a very good student. I prefer to learn by experience.

Education is what you learn after you leave school.

Lessons didn't really work out for me, so I went to the old school, listening to records and learning what I wanted to learn.

My learning process is by eye alone; it's not at all scientific.

You have to think about what you want to do. There is nothing to say that you should study from the age of 20 to 23. I learnt more on a film set at 17 than in the classroom.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

I have been blessed to have had many excellent teachers. The further I get away from school, though, the more I realize that the greatest teachers in my life have come from outside of academia.

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.