E. V. Lucas Quotes

We cannot learn men from books.

And though thou hadst small Latin, and less Greek.

The world is the true classroom. The most rewarding and important type of learning is through experience, seeing something with our own eyes.

Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.

I have not the advantage of a classical education, and no man should, in my judgement, accept a degree he cannot read.

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

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

There's a lot of things you can't learn unless you actually experience it.

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

I am not of the opinion generally entertained in this country [England], that man lives by Greek and Latin alone; that is, by knowing a great many words of two dead languages, which nobody living knows perfectly, and which are of no use in the common intercourse of life. Useful knowledge, in my opinion, consists of modern languages, history, and geography; some Latin may be thrown into the bargain, in compliance with custom, and for closet amusement.

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

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

In all the twelve years I was at school no one ever succeeded in making me write a Latin verse or learn any Greek except the alphabet.

Experience is the only teacher, and we get his lesson indifferently in any school.

Education. Experience. Or are they the same thing?

There is no doubt that Greek and Latin are great and handsome ornaments, but we buy them too dear.

I always felt that I came up short in the education department, but I've come to the conclusion that we all get an education.

Events are the best teacher for us. You try to learn from people, there is always some bend to it.

I've never been a big believer in formal education.

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

I have studied at the school of the world.

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.

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 have a formal education, but there's a whole lot you don't learn in school. And you only have so much time to figure it out. No matter how cerebral, celestial, how ethnic, there's a span of time here.