Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Quotes

I didn't go to theater school. I didn't go to Julliard. But I've lived a lot. I've seen a lot. I feel like that makes up for a little bit.

I had no education whatsoever, and my mother said, 'Oh, you'll get a much better education in life.' I did to some extent, though I always wish I could have tried it.

The fact that I am not formally trained never really bothered me. There were times I knew it could have been a brownie point, had I been trained, but it never pulled me back.

That which we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so.

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

You can learn from everyone, the president or the cleaner. You need teachers in life, but they're not always school teachers or professors. You learn from ordinary people. You learn from travel, from just walking down the street.

The smartest billionaires I know never finished high school. I got my degree and my doctorate on the street and an advanced degree in jail.

I think it is true to say that I am not the first Nobel Prize winner in economics to have little formal training in economics.

I didn't go to school much. I was thrown out of different schools, and my university is the street.

My best mentor is a mechanic - and he never left the sixth grade. By any competency measure, he doesn't have it. But the perspective he brings to me and my life is, bar none, the most helpful.

I haven't even graduated from high school yet - and I've realised in the last four years, with all the travelling I've done and all of the movies I've made, that the world is my classroom. I've experienced things I don't know you can necessarily get from reading a history book.

I'm not a prophet. I'm not a teacher. I have no degrees. My degree is from the University of Life.

The best university is the university of life.

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.

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.

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 didn't have much of a formal education myself.

I never had a teacher, and I never had lessons, other than hard Nature itself.

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

I dropped out of college and I'm pretty much a self-educated person, so a lot of my core belief system comes from life.

The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.

The years I would have spent at University, I spent building Student Magazine and Virgin Records. For me that was far more fun and satisfying. I have treated everyday as the University education I never had and think I learnt more about business and life than I would have at University in the process.

I may not have a degree, but I certainly got an education.

I didn't have a regular school experience and wanted a more abstract way of learning. I started exploring in lots of different creative ways. It gave me the opportunity to travel and play music, so it was good for me.

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