Joey Ramone Quotes

All that schooling never prepares you for the reality of life.

School typically doesn't prepare young people for real life - unless their lives are spent following instructions and pleasing others. In my opinion, that's why so many students who succeed in school fail in life.

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

Life experiences cannot be learnt on the film set or in front of the camera.

I am no police, I don't even have any educational degree, but I have a degree in life management.

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.

Common sense comes from experience, and kids need to fail as well as succeed in order to learn it. It's difficult to develop common sense when you spend a lot of time in your room where nothing much happens.

School was more than academics; an education prepared you for the humdrum of real life: working with others, tempering one's personality to assimilate with the group but without losing your individual identity, understading the factors of logic, reasoning, and debate. For a person - vampire or human - to succeed in the world, unlocking the mysteries of the universe was insufficient. One would also need to grasp the mysteries of human nature.

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

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.

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

The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school. Traditional education is based on facts and figures and passing tests - not on a comprehension of the material and its application to your life.

I don't know how you can understand other people or yourself if you haven't read a lot of books. I just don't think you're equipped to deal with the demands and decisions of life, particularly in your dealings with other people.

You learn how to be book smart in school, but you better not forget that you also need to be street smart.

How on earth do people imagine we equip children for life if we never show them the sorts of issues other people encounter, if we never talk through with them how they might deal with difficulty or violence or unexpected shocks and surprises?

I like the fact that I'm living in the world rather than in a university.

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.

I learn from experience.

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.

Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.

Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.

Education must not simply teach work - it must teach Life.

You learn all the best stuff in life after you leave school.

Let's teach boys at school the personally and economically valuable skills of self-expression and emotional intelligence, of mediation and problem-solving.

You grow, you mature, you live, and you learn. You get a little wiser, and you learn better ways to handle things.