Alex Tabarrok Quotes

I haven't even graduated from high school yet - and I've realised in the last four years, with all the travelling I've done and all of the movies I've made, that the world is my classroom. I've experienced things I don't know you can necessarily get from reading a history book.

When you get to see the world, it changes you. You realise that there are all kinds of people out there.

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

I didn't understand how you could be an actor if you didn't also study philosophy and study political science, astronomy. And also just go out and live life and have experiences.

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

I don't necessarily want a higher education, I want a wider education. I want to know everything and experience everything.

I travel all the time. And as I go around the world, I try to learn a little something and not just take up all the available air.

We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate.

The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.

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

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.

Being at Stanford really opens your eyes to the world that's out there.

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.

I've learned a lot in life, travelling, living abroad, just in the school of life.

I've seen the world and I've seen the bigger picture.

I've seen a lot and experienced so many different cultures, and that's helped me a lot in my career and helped me mature as a person.

I want to be influenced by the world not TV or film.

As I can testify, living in a foreign country takes you way out of your comfort zone. It's the little things, like ordering food in a different language, buying petrol or learning to drive on the other side of the road, but they all add up to making you a more rounded, educated person.

The real answers aren't in textbooks; they can be found through experiences.

You learn out of bitter experience, trial and error. Life teaches you that. As sincere as you all are, you can't learn it all in school.

However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.

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

There is a sort of knowledge beyond the power of learning to bestow, and this is to be had in conversation; so necessary is this to the understanding the characters of men, that none are more ignorant of them than those learned pedants whose lives have been entirely consumed in colleges and among books; for however exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers the true practical system can be learned only in the world.

I have a conviction that a few weeks spent in a well organized summer camp may be of more value educationally than a whole year of formal school work.

Only practical work and experience lead the young to maturity.