Incomplete Education Quotes

At present we educate people only up to the point where they can earn a living and marry; then education ceases altogether, as though a complete mental outfit had been acquired. ... Vast numbers of men and women thus spend their entire lives in complete ignorance of the most important things.

I didn't go to the 12th grade... I stopped at 11.

You see, I went to the sixth grade and that was the highest I ever went.

I never even graduated college. I never finished learning, as it were, and I have a psychological need to be in a learning environment at all times.

What takes its place is very dry education. And the tools that actually can teach you - singing and playing, learning how to participate with other people, spiritual richness - are replaced with a big emphasis on how to memorize things. That's such an incomplete education. Survival of the fittest used to mean being bigger and stronger.

I went through high school, but I didn't graduate.

I left high school very early. I was 17. So I guess it wasn't that early, but I did not get a high school education.

I went to art high school and thought I'd be a painter. Unfortunately I didn't finish high school, but that's always been part of my work.

There were no object lessons, and the studies of bookkeeping and French were pursued (but never effectually overtaken.