49 Formal Education Quotes to know the importance of learning

Formal education is a structured and systematic form of learning. Formal learning includes classroom instruction, web-based training, remote labs, e-learning courses, workshops, seminars, webinars, etc. It is important for everyone.

Here are some motivational Formal Education Quotes to know the importance of formal learning.

Formal Education Quotes

1. “The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.” ― Maya Angelou

2. “It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.” Albert Einstein

3. “Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” Jim Rohn

4. “I understood a powerful fact: formal education gets you a job, but self-education is what makes you rich!” ― Jim Rohn

5. “Formal education opens the world to you; contemplation and reflection open yourself to you.” ― Debasish Mridha

6. “It is clearly absurd to limit the term ‘education’ to a person’s formal schooling.” ― Murray N. Rothbard

7. “Formal education enhances what you do, self-education nourishes who you are.” ― Auliq Ice

8. “A formal education will give you knowledge; self-education will give you wisdom.” ― Debasish Mridha

9. “Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession – their ignorance.” ― Hendrick Willem Van Loon

10. “Formal education teaches how to stand, but to see the rainbow you must come out and walk many steps on your own.” ― Amit Ray

Formal Schooling Education Quotes

11. “Not the formal schooling but the journey through life is the best teacher.” ― Debasish Mridha

12. “Formal education makes you a living, self-education makes you a legend.” ― Habeeb Akande

13. “I enjoyed my formal education but I appreciate my acquired specific knowledge a lot.” ― Anyaele Sam Chiyson

14. “Formal education and current position can define your worthiness. What makes you extraordinary is defined by your attitude towards others.” ― Ashish Patel

15. “Formal learning is like riding a bus: the driver decides where the bus is going; the passengers are along for the ride. Informal learning is like riding a bike: the rider chooses the destination, the speed, and the route.” ― Jay Cross

16. “Everyone must be given the opportunity to think, read and write.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita

17. “Formal schooling tends to demand that humans use their memories the way computers do, rather than the way humans do. This, too, can make people seem stupid.” ― James Paul Gee

18. “Formal education is like a billboard for the blind. It robs us of our autodidactic nature. Who taught the first teacher?” ― Mike Stagnitta

19. “Lack of a formal education is a death sentence to some and an opportunity to explore for others.” ― Nicky Verd

Formal Education Quotes for self-motivation

20. “Neither formal education, desire, hard work, nor a good person guarantees success… the most important key to success is self-motivation. And a consciously chosen vision of the future is a powerful aid to motivate yourself.” ― Phil Laut

21. “Sometimes it is harder to teach people who are educated than people who haven’t even had a formal education.” ― Krizha Mae G. Abia

22. “I wonder in what way I would function as a person, in a society without ever attending school. I’d be myself.” ― J.R. Rim

23. “The formal education of women was rarely considered important. Girls of good birth were taught domestic skills at home or in a convent, and rarely learned to read and write, for it was feared that if they did they would waste their talents writing love letters or reading romances that led to promiscuity.” ― Alison Weir

24. “Everyone is influenced by those things that precede formal education, that come out of the blue and out of everyday life.” ― Rebecca Solnit

25. “Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.” ― Stephen Vizinczey

26. “Everyone is influenced by those things that precede formal education, that come out of the blue and out of everyday life. Those excluded influences I call the grandmothers.” ― Rebecca Solnit

Quotes to know the need for formal education

27. “Today one needs education. One needs formal training. Or else one needs to be extraordinarily gifted at self-education. And one needs to understand that the process can never stop, because new knowledge begins to make one’s training obsolete almost as soon as one completes it.” ― Nathaniel Branden

28. “Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” ― Albert Goodman

29. “In terms of formal education, I may somewhat be lacking. I never finished school. I am a self-taught entrepreneur, that’s the best kind there is, trust me.” ― Aravind Adiga

30. “Contrary to popular belief, the performers who emerged from the southern hills to become the pioneers of country music and bluegrass were not from an exclusively aural folk tradition. Formal musical education, albeit rudimentary, was available each summer in towns like Rosine in the form of “singing schools!” ― Richard D. Smith

31. “A formal education will teach you how to conform with society. Self-education will teach you how to get out of conformity so that you can fill your life with adventure and beauty.” ― Debasish Mridha

32. “Formal education can rob us of our autodidactic nature if not approached with complete and objective awareness. Who taught the first teacher?” ― Michael Stagnitta

33. “Sizing up succinctly with his lack of formal education compared with his determination to learn from others, the author writes, “I went to college with every person I ever met.” ― Chris Gardner

34. “Practically all of the successful Negroes in this country are of the uneducated type or of that of Negroes who have had no formal education at all.” ― Carter G. Woodson

Best Formal Learning Quotes

35. “Out of the nine years spent in formal medical education, I would estimate I had four hours of lectures on nutrition.” ― Jason Fung

36. “The more formal education you have, the more you can distinguish between truth and fiction. In other words, individuals who are more educated are less likely to be brainwashed from negative influence.” ― Saaif Alam

37. “Education is a life-long process that involves not only formal schooling but a continual quest to learn and understand what’s happening in the world. It is driven by curiosity and a desire to know the truth and acquire wisdom.” ― Laurence Overmire

38. “We educated people to make a great display of humility when we meet, trying to get the better of each other in unimportance. It is usually only a formality, of course, a polite mask for our feelings of superiority.” ― John Spurling

39. “The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.” ― Maya Angelou

40. “Read more books than those who have a formal education, developing this into a lifelong habit.” ― Robert Greene

41. “Mastery begins when formal education ends.” ― James Altucher

42. “The education of an artist is one of the most chaotic branches of formal education.” ― Bertram D. Wolfe

43. “Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” ― Sophia Franklin

44. “Education is a means, not an end. We don’t enroll in formal education ad nauseam as a way of escaping life. Rather, we educate ourselves in order to become equipped to respond wisely to God’s calling.” ― Ken Wytsma

Formal Teaching Quotes

45. “As formal teaching and training grow to an extent, there is the danger of creating an undesirable split between the experience gained in more direct associations and what is acquired in school. This danger was never greater than at the present time, on account of the rapid growth in the last few centuries of knowledge and technical modes of skill.” ― John Dewey

46. “In a setting of formal education, one would imagine that abstract thought would be encouraged and that questioning obvious errors within the current system wouldn’t be frowned upon. Wrong again; these cunts are out to protect their pocketbooks and paradigms.” ― Scott Parker

47. “Every child must be taught how to think, read and write.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita

48. “It was his fifth son and namesake, Sam, thirteen at the time of his father’s death, who could lose himself in the shelves of books even to the detriment of his formal education.” ― James L. Haley

49. “It is one of the strangest anomalies of life that the absence of fear, and not formal education or brilliance of mind, is the major cause of individual success.” ― Napoleon Hill

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