Jimmy Iovine Quotes

Are any of us self-taught? It just means I didn't go to school for it. But you do have teachers. You have mentors.

I had no education whatsoever, and my mother said, 'Oh, you'll get a much better education in life.' I did to some extent, though I always wish I could have tried it.

There are many types of education: formal education, street education, personal education, experiential education, and I've found that I've had different partners who have a lot of wonderful intellect and education from all different types of sources.

The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom.

I wasn't a very good student. I prefer to learn by experience.

I have been blessed to have had many excellent teachers. The further I get away from school, though, the more I realize that the greatest teachers in my life have come from outside of academia.

I used to be really insecure about my self-education. I'm definitely always learning. But there's many ways to learn. There are many, many ways to always be a learner.

Whatever education I got was from experience and reading. But I also realize I wouldn't pass my friend's sixth-grade class.

You can go to school and learn and that works for some people. But I think the best kind of learning is practical and learning on the job.

One of the brilliant things I realised after I'd left school is that there are so many ways you can learn. I do this best on the job.

I educate myself, but I haven't got the time or patience to enlist myself in a degree course. The world is my school.

I learned from my peers, and I learned from doing projects, and I learned from mentors, but I learned very little from lectures, and I've talked about how little I attended them.

I learned in life from a very young age that I soaked in a lot more from people that I respected and could learn from rather than a textbook.

Most people acquire most of their knowledge outside school, and in school only insofar as school, in a few rich countries, has become their place of confinement during an increasing part of their lives.

You can learn from everyone, the president or the cleaner. You need teachers in life, but they're not always school teachers or professors. You learn from ordinary people. You learn from travel, from just walking down the street.

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

The formal education that I received made little sense to me.

You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.

Education is what you learn after you leave school.

I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.

Lessons didn't really work out for me, so I went to the old school, listening to records and learning what I wanted to learn.

I didn't go to theater school. I didn't go to Julliard. But I've lived a lot. I've seen a lot. I feel like that makes up for a little bit.

Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.

Education is hanging around until you've caught on.