Philippe Falardeau Quotes

Education is what you learn after you leave school.

We are getting an education of a lifetime. We're actually out there in the real world.

There is no better teacher than life itself.

All life lessons are not learned at college,'she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.

Some kids want to know why the teachers get paid when it's the kids who have to do all the work.

I don't really take the college tours and all that. Those are young people and I'm quite sure they're mature enough to understand, but they haven't seen or lived real life yet.

My job is to portray real human beings and real human experiences, and if I haven't had a real human experience myself outside of the film industry, how am I going to be able to do that?

The work of education is divided between the teacher and the environment.

I honestly try to have the approach that this is real life, this is the real world that we live in, and I don't really try to shelter [my son] from a lot of things that he's gonna see when he looks out of the window.

We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.

Unfortunately, real life doesn't have a remote control.

Documentary filmmaking ruins you for real life, because you learn to be extremely attentive.

What is a teacher? I'll tell you: it isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows.

I learn teaching from teachers. I learn golf from golfers. I learn winning from coaches.

It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning.

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true. You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. Learning is finding out what we already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers and teachers. The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.

Every man is the sum total of his reactions to experience. As your experiences differ and multiply, you become a different man, and hence your perspective changes. This goes on and on. Every reaction is a learning process; every significant experience alters your perspective.

The first half of my life I went to school, the second half of my life I got an education.

If you're going to be an artist, real life is your inspiration.

It's the student who makes the teacher, not the other way around.

The more you remember, the more you are able to experience, the more you know, so to speak. And the more you know, the more you remember. It is a circle... But remember, none of it has been exactly a drudge. I mean, you've loved all of it! Every last minute! Oh, it's delicious, this thing called life! It's a scrumptious experience, no?

I would say this to my students all the time, it's about 30% you as the teacher and 70% about them. They tend to think that their role is to be the baby bird in a nest and you're going to feed them? They're going to feed themselves, or they're going to starve.

When teachers stop learning, so do students.

If I was to be their real teacher and guardian, I must touch their hearts, I must share their joys and sorrows, I must help them to solve the problems that faced them, and I must take along the right channel the surging aspirations of their youth.