Learning Outside the Classroom Quotes

Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.

I'm actually the last person to ask about school. I kinda ducked out at 12, before all that stuff might have happened. I left school after sixth grade and was basically home-schooled after that.

If Everybody In The World Dropped Out Of School We Would Have A Much More Intelligent Society.

The difference between the university graduate and the autodidact lies not so much in the extent of knowledge as in the extent of vitality and self-confidence.

I was home educated but would skip my lessons to go hang out at school.

I didn't go to school much. I was thrown out of different schools, and my university is the street.

We have been taught (that is, schooled) in this country to think of 'success' as synonymous with, or at least dependent upon, 'schooling,' but historically that isn’t true in either an intellectual or a financial sense. And plenty of people throughout the world today find a way to educate themselves without resorting to a system of compulsory secondary schools that all too often resemble prison.

There can be no education without leisure; and without leisure, education is worthless.

I quit school in ninth grade, even though I was good at the studies. I knew I didn't need school for what I wanted.

I went to the University of Life and was chucked out.

I didn't have a normal academic career. I never studied cinema. I learned from life.

I have long since abandoned the notion that higher education is essential to either success or happiness. Hothouses of learning do not always grow anything edible.

Research in education has shown that we remember field trips long into adulthood. I remember visiting the post office in second grade and looking at the sorting machine. I have vivid memories of that, when I don't even remember the name of the teacher who took me.

I think self-education is the greatest and best thing you could ever make.

I try never to let my schooling get in the way of my education.

Schools have not necessarily much to do with education...they are mainly institutions of control where certain basic habits must be inculcated in the young. Education is quite different and has little place in school.

In life, the classroom is everywhere. The exam comes at the very end.

When in school, I was interested in many things other than studies.

I was terrible student at Michigan, terrible. Because there was too much else to do. I was learning form too many other sources to go to class.

You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him. You send him to the Latin class, but much of histuition comes, on his way to school, from the shop- windows.

Going to university is only one avenue to gain knowledge. There are others. A degree isn't insurance against ignorance.