Will Smith Quotes

You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.

What they teach you in school doesn't prepare you for life. Textbooks don't compare to living in the real world. Rock and roll teaches you how to live.

Literary or scientific, liberal or specialist, all our education is predominantly verbal and therefore fails to accomplish what it is supposed to do. Instead of transforming children into fully developed adults, it turns out students of the natural sciences who are completely unaware of Nature as the primary fact of experience, it inflicts upon the world students of the humanities who know nothing of humanity, their own or anyone else's.

Maybe that sounds a bit pretentious, but I think life experience is always more important than technical knowledge.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

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.

I learn from experience.

The best university is the university of life.

For adults to enjoy something, they need to have intellectual stimulation, something that's related to real life.

Education is not an end to itself. You need to know algebra but also how to navigate the world.

Education is the foundation of success. Just as scholastic skills are vitally important, so are financial skills and communication skills.

A school is a place through which you have to pass before entering life, but where the teaching proper does not prepare you for life.

Education does not mean the imparting of verbal knowledge alone.

If this is preparation for life, where in the world, where in the relationship with our colleagues, where in the industrial domain, where ever again, anywhere in life, is a person given this curious sequence of prepared talks and prepared questions, questions to which the answers are known?

As formal teaching and training grow in extent, there is the danger of creating an undesirable split between the experience gained in more direct associations and what is acquired in school. This danger was never greater than at the present time, on account of the rapid growth in the last few centuries of knowledge and technical modes of skill.

There are two schools. The school where you go and open a book, and then there's the school of life. When you learn hands-on, often you don't understand why you do what you do and what's the word for that action.

What is learned in high school, or for that matter anywhere at all, depends far less on what is taught than on what one actually experiences in the place.

We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.

What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored.

It's like people always say, Well, does sport teach you anything in life? It teaches you certain things, but it doesn't teach you other things. It doesn't teach, as I say, very much about marriage, very much about how to make a living, any of those things.

Perhaps the best test of a man's intelligence is his capacity for making a summary.

One gains at least two to three times more experience grabbing the tiger by the tail than reading about it in a book.

Education is cheap; experience is expensive.

Understanding, and action proceeding from understanding and guided by it, is one weapon against the world's bombardment, the one medicine, the one instrument by which liberty, health, and joy may be shaped . . . in the individual, and in the race.

The grand result of schooling is a mind with just vision to discern, with free force to do: the grand schoolmaster is Practice.