40 Quotes by School

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

Schools teach you how to work for money, but don’t teach how to make money work for you.

Even though I only have a high-school degree, I’m a professional student.

I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I – if I’m not interested in something, I don’t grasp it.

There’s no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.

Experiments show that children in unsupervised groups are capable of answering questions many years ahead of the material they’re learning in school. In fact, they seem to enjoy the absence of adult supervision, and they are very confident of finding the right answer.

If you’re planning on dropping out of high school, prepare yourself for the future by repeating aloud each day: ‘I’m looking forward to low-paying jobs for the rest of my life.’

While I was trying to save money to go to the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Australia I ended up getting all of this experience which meant that by the time I had enough money in the bank to go to school I didn’t really need to go to school anymore.

The education of even a small child, therefore, does not aim at preparing him for school, but for life.