Talib Kweli Quotes

We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.

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.

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

I am an engineer, but what I find important and necessary is that you just learn things as you go along.

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

The primary difference that I have found between the system of education in India and other countries, particularly the U.S., is that they focus on problem solving and relating theories to reality around them. These two things are lacking in the education system in India.

The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it.

You can read and read, but nothing eclipses experience.

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.

My kid is seven years old and is learning to read and conjugate, but I don't agree with that kind of education because I feel that the concepts are not contextualized... it's interesting to try to make my kid a reflective boy, rather than just a repetitive boy, even if he doesn't agree with me.

The best university is the university of life.

At its best, schooling can be about how to make a life, which is quite different from how to make a living.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

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

My Grinnell education didn't prepare me directly for the work that I'm doing, but it did give me the tools that I needed to focus my curiosity.

It is no small mischief to a boy, that many of the best years of his life should be devoted to the learning of what can never be of any real use to any human being. His mind is necessarily rendered frivolous and superficial by the long habit of attaching importance to words instead of things; to sound instead of sense.

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.

The trouble with school is they give you the answer, then they give you the exam. That's not life.

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.

When you learn through coding, [you're] coding to learn. You're learning it in a meaningful context, and that's the best way of learning things.

...it's not just learning that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters.

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

Learning is an active process. We learn by doing.. Only knowledge that is used sticks in your mind.

Reading and writing, arithmetic and grammar do not constitute education, any more than a knife, fork and spoon constitute a dinner.

Our great mistake in education is ... the worship of book-learning-the confusion of instruction and education. We strain the memory instead of cultivating the mind. ... We ought to follow exactly the opposite course with children-to give them a wholesome variety of mental food, and endeavour to cultivate their tastes, rather than to fill their minds with dry facts.