Quotes on Formal Education

Schools teach you how to work for money, but don't teach how to make money work for you

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

My hope and wish is that one day, formal education will pay attention to what I call 'education of the heart'.

I learned from my mom and dad, who didn't have a formal education but had doctorates of love. They told me that if you gave 110 percent all the time, a lot of beautiful things will happen. I may not always be right, but no one can ever accuse me of not having a genuine love and passion for whatever I do.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.'

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.

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

It appeared clear to me - partly because of the lies that filled my history textbooks - that the intent of formal education was to inculcate obedience to a social order that did not deserve my loyalty. Defiance seemed the only dignified response to the adult world.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.