Formal Learning Quotes

Over the next two years UNICEF will focus on improving access to and the quality of education to provide children who have dropped out of school or who work during school hours the opportunity to gain a formal education!

Anything we need to know, we can learn it from a book.

I suppose that in no educational institution can one become an educated person.

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

Schooling, by definition, must be conservative. It is naturally dependent on an older generation’s level of knowledge and sense of values.

Isolating the student from large sections of human knowledge is not the basis of a Christian education. Rather it is giving him or her the framework for total truth, rooted in the Creator's existence and in the Bible's teaching, so that in each step of the formal learning process the student will understand what is true and what is false and why it is true or false.

Education should not be fun. You are being brought up into society and society has a way of doing things. It may not be pleasant but sooner or later you are going to have to do it anyway.

Human intelligence is richer and more dynamic than we have been led to believe by formal academic education.

What we now call school training, the pursuit of fixed studies at stated hours under the constant guidance of a teacher, I could scarcely be said to have enjoyed.

I don't want to go to school and learn solemn things.

With but a few exceptions, we don't have this personal study under masters any more. Craftsmanship has sunk very low. We no longer have any universally creative persons who are able to guide young learners not only in technical matters but also, at the same time, in a formal way.

It was in the year 1820, when I was nearly nine years old, that I first went to a regular school.

Formal learning can teach you a great deal, but many of the essential skills in life are the ones you have to develop on your own.

When I enrolled in college at age 19, I had a total of eight years of formal classroom education. As a result, I was not comfortable with formal lectures and receiving regular homework assignments.

State educators have confused the length of formal education with real-life skills.

As long as youngsters learn the right things, it really doesn't matter where they learn it from.

I've gone to real school my whole life.