Street Education Quotes

Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.

What you learned on the streets of Brooklyn will be a damn sight more helpful to your president than anything you learned at Harvard.

I have a foundation where it caters to street children and entices them to go back to school. The street is not a good school for them. They need to go to a proper school.

With gangs, there could be a positive outlook because it takes the older guys to come school these younger guys on the right roles.

As I was coming up, it always seemed like I was learning. If it wasn't from school, it was the 'hood. The influences of the 'hood are very powerful.

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

On the streets, hanging out with the fellows, there are things you learn that no book can teach you.

I was born in Owerri and grew up in the east of Nigeria, in Imo state. You could say I was a 'street boy': we grew up on the street, played on the street, did everything out on the street. It was a difficult life altogether, but that's how we grew up.

We learn about one another's culture the same way we learn about sex—in the streets.

I want to create a street school for kids.

I'm married to the street; I ain't gonna switch over. I ain't gonna go religion on nobody. I believe in God - God is for the thugs too - but the streets are in the most trouble. So I'mma keep it focused on the streets and the struggle. That's what I'm mainly about.

The mob taught me how to play gin rummy.

I compose songs with a lot of simplicity because my school has been the streets, and people have been my books.

I went to the school of hard knocks.

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.

People use mobile phones in this very distracting environment where you probably don't have time to watch a 30-minute film, but you might have time to look at a film for a minute and learn something you didn't expect while you walk on the streets.

I started playing football on the streets; I grew up playing football on the streets with my friends, and that's why I was brought up the way I was. That's the school I had - the street football.

I took a good deal o' pains with his eddication, sir; let him run in the streets when he was very young, and shift for hisself. It's the only way to make a boy sharp, sir.

Usually my characters, though young, tend to be street-wise.