Real-World Education Quotes

It's priceless what you learn when you actually do. It's like going to film school times eleven. The best education is effectively to be functioning in the occupation that you want to take on.

If your education is not enough, experience will teach you lessons.

Experience is our only teacher both in war and peace.

The best teacher in life is experience.

You learn out of bitter experience, trial and error. Life teaches you that. As sincere as you all are, you can't learn it all in school.

The world is the true classroom. The most rewarding and important type of learning is through experience, seeing something with our own eyes.

I certainly didn't learn anything in school. My education was the world.

We cannot learn men from books.

Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.

There's nothing that can teach you more than experience.

Those whom books will hurt will not be proof against events. Events, not books, should be forbid.

I have my Master's Degree but I learned more at my dinner table than any class I ever took. My dad would come home from the sweat factory and put the money on the table and say Mea, here is some money for insurance and food and we always had that little extra for Friday night pizza at Barcelona's.

Events sometimes are the biggest teachers, as opposed to words, lectures, and that kind of thing.

There's nothing that can replace learning on the field.

Experience is the only teacher, and we get his lesson indifferently in any school.

Many of the most successful men and women in the world never graduated from college. They attended the school of life instead.

There's a lot of things you can't learn unless you actually experience it.

The world no doubt is the best or most serviceable schoolmaster; but the world's curriculum does not include Latin and Greek.

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Education doesn't just take place in stuffy classrooms and university buildings, it can happen everywhere, every day to every person.

In life, the classroom is everywhere. The exam comes at the very end.

While you are walking you would learn much more about filmmaking than if you were in a classroom. During your voyage you will learn more about what your future holds than in five years at film school. Your experiences would be the very opposite of academic knowledge, for academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion.

Most of my life wasn't about knowledge from books, but experiential knowledge.

I think great businessmen are more likely made than born. I don't know if it's from your upbringing, your parental background, the struggles you go through. In my own particular situation, I left school at 15 and I was struggling to survive in the jungle and that was a great education. So I think just getting out there, hands on, learning to survive teaches you a lot.

What I learned, in the two months that we shot, I don't think I could have learned in two to four years of drama school. It's invaluable to me, and that's been the most fun. It's been nice to let this be a learning experience in everything.