Pauline Hanson Quotes

I just wasn't academic. I wanted to be in the real world.

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.

Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.

The greatest teacher I know is the job itself.

I'd much rather be in the world than in some ivory tower somewhere.

Life experiences cannot be learnt on the film set or in front of the camera.

Only practical work and experience lead the young to maturity.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.

You learn how to be book smart in school, but you better not forget that you also need to be street smart.

I like the fact that I'm living in the world rather than in a university.

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.

Doing real world projects is, I think, the best way to learn and also to engage the world and find out what the world is all about.

Working through experience is best for me, just being there and trying to get into the mode.

You can do all the film school you want in classrooms, but if you are on the set, you are going to learn so much more because you are really in the middle of doing it.

The best preparation for work is not thinking about work, talking about work or studying for work. It is work.

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

There's nothing that can replace learning on the field.

Learning has been as great a Loser by being shut up in Colleges and Cells, and secluded from the World and good Company. By that Means, every Thing of what we call Belles Lettres became totally barbarous, being cultivated by Men without any Taste of Life or Manners, and without that Liberty and Facility of Thought and Expression, which can only be acquir'd by Conversation.

A week of camp life is worth six months of theoretical teaching in the meeting room.

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.

What it takes to do a job will not be learned from management courses. It is principally a matter of experience, the proper attitude, and common sense — none of which can be taught in a classroom... Human experience shows that people, not organizations or management systems, get things done.

I didn't go to no school for acting. I learned it all by trial and error.

In most every business, you learn by doing. The apprenticeship model is much more effective than the classroom for cultivating entrepreneurs.

The whole point of college is to find yourself, to figure out things before you go into the real world.

Not a Harvard-type education, just a not-sticking-up-a-liquor-store-type education.