Hailee Steinfeld Quotes

Gaining my education from practical experience certainly benefited me. If I had gone on to be a lawyer, my life wouldn't have been anywhere near as interesting.

The world is the true classroom. The most rewarding and important type of learning is through experience, seeing something with our own eyes.

The best education I have ever received was through travel.

The greatest teacher I know is the job itself.

I don't thrive in a school or academic environment, I found out. I thrive better in the world outside the small academy because I find it hard to explain what I'm doing.

You will learn more by walking from Canada to Guatemala than you will ever learn in film school.

In a short amount of time, I've lived so much, had so many experiences and met so many different types of people and even lived in so many countries. If I had been in school, I'd be learning about the world from books.

I didn't have a normal academic career. I never studied cinema. I learned from life.

Well-roundedness comes not from sitting in a classroom but from experiencing the larger world.

I'm certainly not very book smart, but I started traveling at 16, and it has enriched me in ways I could never begin to explain.

Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.

Most of my life wasn't about knowledge from books, but experiential knowledge.

I've learned a lot in life, travelling, living abroad, just in the school of life.

There's a lot of things you can't learn unless you actually experience it.

The real answers aren't in textbooks; they can be found through experiences.

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

There's nothing that can teach you more than experience.

He never reckoned much to schooling and that. He said you could learn most what was worth knowing from keeping your eyes and ears peeled. Best way of learning, he always said, was doing.

Common sense comes from experience, and kids need to fail as well as succeed in order to learn it. It's difficult to develop common sense when you spend a lot of time in your room where nothing much happens.

A man's real education begins after he has left school. True education is gained through the discipline of life.

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.

You have to live to really know things, my love

I learned a lot I wouldn't have learned roaming the streets of Dallas.

A lot of my world-view is formed by the places I've been.

I didn't go to school a full year until I was 11 or 12, so I lived in books. I really was an observer of life.