Elizabeth Bowen Quotes

The best university is the university of life.

I learned just by going around. I know all about Kleenex factories, and all sorts of things.

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.

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

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

If your education is not enough, experience will teach you lessons.

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

It wasn’t in books. It wasn’t in a church. What I needed to know was out there in the world.

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

Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets.

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

We learn about one another's culture the same way we learn about sex—in the streets.

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced--even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.

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.

Events sometimes are the biggest teachers, as opposed to words, lectures, and that kind of thing.

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 consider the world, this Earth, to be like a school, and our life the classrooms.

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.

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.

Everything is educational.

I don't look at anything in my life as achievements. I look at them as experiences.

Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting. Most people learn best by being "with it," yet school makes them identify their personal, cognitive growth with elaborate planning and manipulation.

Nature without learning is like a blind man; learning without Nature, like a maimed one; practice without both, incomplete. As in agriculture a good soil is first sought for, then a skilful husbandman, and then good seed; in the same way nature corresponds to the soil, the teacher to the husbandman, precepts and instruction to the seed.

There's more learning than is taught in books.