formal schooling Quotes

In the 1820s, the U.S., Japan, and the U.K. were some of the only countries where the average population received at least two years of formal schooling.

The difference between intelligence and an education is this: that intelligence will make a good living for you, but education won't do much for you at all.

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. Whereas, if the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily.

My father left school at the age of fourteen, so this was a man with no deep experience of formal education.

It is clearly absurd to limit the term 'education' to a person's formal schooling.

I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.

It's critical that children spend time before they arrive in school in a warm, attractive and inclusive environment, where they can learn through play, master social skills and prepare for formal schooling.

Due to financial reasons, I dropped out of school after eight years of formal schooling.

While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap.