Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

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.

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

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

The best university is the university of life.

The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school.

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.

School is a foretaste of life.

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

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university.

I didn't go to high school, and I didn't go to grade school either. Education, I think, is for refinement and is probably a liability.

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.

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

I never went to school for art or was told what to like or when. So every day is a learning process, like most of life.

I view life as a learning experience. It is not so much all about music; it is about what happens when you are doing the music.

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.

In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.

I actually went to film school, but I didn't like it. I'm basically self-taught.

Life isn't about algebra and geometry. Learning by making mistakes and not duplicating them is what life is about.

I was never a good student. I had to be dragged into kindergarten. It was hard to sit and listen to somebody talk. I wanted to be out, educated by experience and adventure, and I didn't know how to express that.

Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught.

I never studied, but I had the best teachers.

Whatever education I got was from experience and reading. But I also realize I wouldn't pass my friend's sixth-grade class.

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.

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.