Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
I've never been a big believer in formal education.
The formal education that I received made little sense to me.
My father had very little formal education.
I graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Communications and left formal education behind.
Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.
I'm a school teacher, and later on, well past my formal education, I became very interested in science.
It is one of the strangest anomalies of life that the absence of fear, and not formal education or brilliance of mind, is the major cause of individual success.
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.
It is clearly absurd to limit the term 'education' to a person's formal schooling.
I remember that - you know, I didn't receive a formal education. I was educated in the Montevideo cafe, in the cafes of Montevideo. There, I received my first lessons in the art of telling stories, storytelling.
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!
Knowledge is not just the preserve of the educated elite. Just because someone has not had a formal education, that does not mean he does not have wisdom and common sense.
Although I was raised Jewish, my upbringing didn't include any formal religious education or training.
I owe the little formal education I got to my drama teacher, Mr. Pickett, who got us to read Shakespeare, Moliere, and other classics.
I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education.
The brainy class is made up of individuals who think for themselves and beyond formal education are continuous learners who tend to be self-taught.
But to this day - I'm very literate now, I love to read, I read constantly - words don't resonate the way they do to a person with a formal education. They're like a maze, a puzzle that has to be opened up.
I haven't had any formal education. Through the grace of god, I am gifted in mathematics and the English language.
Formal education teaches how to stand, but to see the rainbow you must come out and walk many steps on your own.
