Anne, Princess Royal Quotes

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

in my experience one thing you don't learn from is anything anyone set up to be a lesson; what you are to know you pick up as you go along.

I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.

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

If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.

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.

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.

I try never to let my schooling get in the way of my education.

I do not know what 'moss' stands for in the proverb , but if it stood for useful knowledge... I gathered more moss by rolling than I ever did at school.

Knowledge is not just the preserve of the educated elite. Just because someone has not had a formal education, that does not mean he does not have wisdom and common sense.

Adults often assume that most learning is the result of teaching and that exploratory, spontaneous learning is unusual. But actually, spontaneous learning is more fundamental.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

Education is what you learn after you leave school.

I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.

Education is hanging around until you've caught on.

What, of course, we want in a university is for people to learn the skills they're going to need outside the classroom. So, having a system that had more emphasis on inquiry and exploration but also on learning and practising specific skills would fit much better with how we know people learn.

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

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.

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.

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.

My knowledge of electrical subjects was not acquired in a methodical manner but was picked up from such books as I could get hold of and from such experiments as I could make with my own hands.

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

You can go to school and learn and that works for some people. But I think the best kind of learning is practical and learning on the job.