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Formal Education Quotes
Questioning what classroom schooling really teaches us.
One musician credits their father, not a classroom, for a formal grounding in raagdari passed down before an uncle brought them into a qawwali ensemble. Others are far more skeptical, echoing doubts you'll also find in Brainy quotes.
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Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.
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I graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Communications and left formal education behind.
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My mother, who was professional schoolteacher, was particularly concerned about our formal education and even went so far as to start a private school together with some other parents so that our intellectual needs would be met.
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I started my first company when I was 18 and learned by trial through fire, having no formal education or entrepreneurial experience.
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My father gave me formal education in raagdari. He died in Lahore in 1964 when I was 13. I was in the tenth year of school, and my father's brother took me into the qawwali ensemble and started giving me formal education in qawwali.
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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.
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I began drawing when I was nearly 3, and after finishing the sixth grade, I left school to paint and was tutored at home. My father didn't think a formal education was necessary for a painter.
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Going to school and formal education wasn't all that impactful to me, but it was the people that I met at school that really made such a difference.
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State educators have confused the length of formal education with real-life skills.
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I owe the little formal education I got to my drama teacher, Mr. Pickett, who got us to read Shakespeare, Moliere, and other classics.
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