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My father had very little formal education.
Daniel Berrigan
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Priest
Father
Formal
Formal Education
Littles
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With self-discipline, all things are possible
Theodore Roosevelt
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26Th U.s. President
Discipline
Formal Education
Self
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I felt the need to unlearn my formal education.
Michael Cimino
/
Formal
Formal Education
Unlearn
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I didn't have much of a formal education myself.
Tony Robinson
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Formal
Formal Education
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I've never been a big believer in formal education.
Megan Fox
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Actress
Funny
Believer
Bigs
Formal
Formal Education
Big Believer
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It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
Albert Einstein
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Theoretical Physicist
Education
Inspirational
Intelligence
Learning
Sad
Curiosity
Formal
Formal Education
Miracle
Survives
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The formal education that I received made little sense to me.
Twyla Tharp
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Dancer
Education
Formal
Formal Education
Littles
Made
Received
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Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
Jim Rohn
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Author
Education
Journey
Knowledge
Learning
Motivational
Success
Money
Formal
Formal Education
Self Education
Will
Living
Make
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State educators have confused the length of formal education with real-life skills.
Dominic Raab
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Politician
Confused
Formal
Formal Education
Length
Skills
Educators
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Ashok Mehta did not go to any institute. He did not carry the baggage of formal education.
Rajiv Menon
/
Baggage
Formal
Formal Education
Institute
Carry
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The present syllabus in our high schools corresponds almost exactly to what was known in 1640.
W. W. Sawyer
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Mathematician
Formal Education
School
Syllabus
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I don't dissuade people from formal education. What I encourage them to do is to follow their dreams.
Ritesh Agarwal
/
Formal
Formal Education
Follow
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Although I was raised Jewish, my upbringing didn't include any formal religious education or training.
Melissa Gilbert
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Actress
Formal
Formal Education
Raised
Religious
Training
Upbringing
Jewish
Although
Include
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I'm a school teacher, and later on, well past my formal education, I became very interested in science.
Bernard Beckett
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Writer
Teacher
Formal
Formal Education
School Teacher
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I graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Communications and left formal education behind.
Sarah Zettel
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Author
Education
Communication
Formal
Formal Education
Michigan
University
Behind
Communications
Graduated
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My father left school at the age of fourteen, so this was a man with no deep experience of formal education.
Peter Carey
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Novelist
Formal
Formal Education
Left
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I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education.
David Rockefeller
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Banker
Education
Travel
Children
Formal
Formal Education
Passionate
Traveler
Child
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Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.
Stephen Vizinczey
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Author
Education
Learning
Amount
Formal
Formal Education
May
Positively
Silly
Strange
Stupid
Stupidity
Cure
Seem
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I haven't had any formal education. Through the grace of god, I am gifted in mathematics and the English language.
Shakuntala Devi
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Writer
English Language
Formal
Formal Education
Gifted
Grace
English
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My mom and dad, although they may not have had a lot of formal education, they were two of the most brilliant people that I know.
Elijah Cummings
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U.s. Representative
Dad
Brilliant
Formal
Formal Education
Mom And Dad
Education Mom Dad
Although
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I started my first company when I was 18 and learned by trial through fire, having no formal education or entrepreneurial experience.
Rob Dyrdek
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Skateboarder
Entrepreneurial
Fire
Formal
Formal Education
Trial
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I owe the little formal education I got to my drama teacher, Mr. Pickett, who got us to read Shakespeare, Moliere, and other classics.
Dennis Quaid
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Actor
Education
Teacher
Drama
Formal
Formal Education
Littles
Mr
Classics
Read
Owe
Pickett
Shakespeare
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My parents came from lower-class British backgrounds. But they worked hard and, without formal education, made it where they are today.
Amy Jackson
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Model
Backgrounds
British
Formal
Formal Education
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I was 17 and living on the streets. I had the education of technically an eighth-grader, but in reality, I had never had a formal education.
Liz Murray
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Inspirational Speaker
Formal
Formal Education
Reality
Streets
Technically
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The brainy class is made up of individuals who think for themselves and beyond formal education are continuous learners who tend to be self-taught.
Maximillian Degenerez
/
Formal
Formal Education
Learners
Self Taught
Continuous
Individuals
Tend
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Going to school and formal education wasn't all that impactful to me, but it was the people that I met at school that really made such a difference.
Huda Kattan
/
Formal
Formal Education
Education Me People
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I never got a formal education. So my intellect is my common sense. I don't have anything else going for me. And my common sense opens the door to instinct.
Jerry Lewis
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Comedian
Education
Common
Common Sense
Doors
Formal
Formal Education
Instinct
Intellect
Anything Else
Door
Opens
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Sometimes people think that I'm maybe pretentious or just weird, a fraud, or fake, because I have a formal education and speak properly and give people respect.
Princess Nokia
/
Education
Respect
Fake
Formal
Formal Education
Pretentious
Speak
Weird
Give
Maybe
Properly
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Knowledge is not just the preserve of the educated elite. Just because someone has not had a formal education, that does not mean he does not have wisdom and common sense.
Vikas Swarup
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Novelist
Knowledge
Wisdom
Common
Common Sense
Educated
Formal
Formal Education
Elite
Preserve
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I taught myself algebra and a little grammar, and somehow I scraped a high enough score on the ACT to be admitted to Brigham Young University, even though I had no formal education.
Tara Westover
/
Education
Algebra
Enough
Formal
Formal Education
Grammar
Score
Taught
University
Young
Act
Admitted
High
Somehow
Though
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Formal education must change. It needs to be brought into closer alignment with the world as it actually is, into closer harmony with the way human beings actually learn and thrive.
Sal Khan
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Alignment
Formal
Formal Education
Harmony
Thrive
Closer
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I began observing, making paintings of my surroundings, taking a vow of silence, listening, composing music, writing, and making time for formal education. Then I started telling stories.
John Francis
/
Education
Music
Composing
Formal
Formal Education
Listening
Observing
Silence
Stories
Surroundings
Vow
Writing
Started
Began
Making
Paintings
Taking
Telling
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Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Author
Education
Jobs
Learning
Children
College
Emphasis
Enjoy
Formal
Formal Education
Gates
Grades
Mark
Too Much
Worry
Much
Bill
Bill Gates
Too
Finish
Mark Zuckerberg
Placed
Steve
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I began drawing when I was nearly 3, and after finishing the sixth grade, I left school to paint and was tutored at home. My father didn't think a formal education was necessary for a painter.
Jamie Wyeth
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Painter
Drawing
Finishing
Formal
Formal Education
Paint
Sixth
Nearly
Grade
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I pretty much left full-time, formal education when I was 11, so that was when I was taken out of the school system... The longest stretch I would go back for was a term and a half when I was about 14.
Daniel Radcliffe
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Actor
Formal
Formal Education
Half
School System
Taken
Term
Full-Time
Longest
Stretch
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I have a formal education, but there's a whole lot you don't learn in school. And you only have so much time to figure it out. No matter how cerebral, celestial, how ethnic, there's a span of time here.
Sixto Rodriguez
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Musician
Celestial
Cerebral
Formal
Formal Education
Ethnic
Figure
So Much Time
Span
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But to this day - I'm very literate now, I love to read, I read constantly - words don't resonate the way they do to a person with a formal education. They're like a maze, a puzzle that has to be opened up.
Lance Henriksen
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Actor
Education
Formal
Formal Education
Words
Constantly
Read
Literate
Maze
Opened
Puzzle
Resonate
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I remember that - you know, I didn't receive a formal education. I was educated in the Montevideo cafe, in the cafes of Montevideo. There, I received my first lessons in the art of telling stories, storytelling.
Eduardo Galeano
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Journalist
Educated
Formal
Formal Education
Lessons
Stories
Cafe
Receive
Telling
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In the digital era, everyone is a student. Degrees given by formal education are not a value currency anymore. Technical skills and an individual's ability to apply the outcomes are important, irrespective of age.
Ronnie Screwvala
/
Ability
Currency
Degrees
Digital
Formal
Formal Education
Given
Individual
Outcomes
Skills
Anymore
Apply
Student
Era
Irrespective
Value
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Over the next two years UNICEF will focus on improving access to and the quality of education to provide children who have dropped out of school or who work during school hours the opportunity to gain a formal education!
Roger Moore
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Actor
Education
Quality
Access
Children
Focus
Formal
Formal Education
Hours
Improving
School
Unicef
Dropped
Gain
Provide
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My mother, who was professional schoolteacher, was particularly concerned about our formal education and even went so far as to start a private school together with some other parents so that our intellectual needs would be met.
Robert B. Laughlin
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Professor
Concerned
Formal
Formal Education
Mother
Needs
Parent
Private School
School
Particularly
Met
Private
Schoolteacher
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My father gave me formal education in raagdari. He died in Lahore in 1964 when I was 13. I was in the tenth year of school, and my father's brother took me into the qawwali ensemble and started giving me formal education in qawwali.
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
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Musician
Brother
Died
Ensemble
Formal
Formal Education
Giving
Education Me Father
Gave
Education Father Me
Tenth
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I am not a chef. I can't claim that title. The difference is a cook doesn't have a degree. A chef has formal education. It has nothing to do with talent or actual preparation - one just can't claim the title if you don't have degree.
Anna Pump
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Education
Chef
Formal
Formal Education
Preparation
Talent
Actual
Cook
Claim
Degree
Difference
Title
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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.
Princess Nokia
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Formal
Formal Education
Intellect
Partners
Different Types
Street
Sources
Types
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My dad was a composer and a musician, but he never finished high school. His formal education was rather minimal from the standards of today's college graduates and Ph.D.'s, but he had a deep interest in questions of science and questions of the universe.
Brian Greene
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Theoretical Physicist
Composer
Finished
Formal
Formal Education
Graduates
High School
Musician
Standards
Universe
Questions
Minimal
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My dad didn't have a formal education, but he had a wonderful vocabulary. So in 'Harvest,' I wanted my main character to be an innately intelligent man who would have the vocabulary to say whatever he wanted in the same way as lots of working-class people can.
Jim Crace
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Writer
Formal
Formal Education
Harvest
Intelligent
Intelligent Man
Vocabulary
Working Class
Lots
Innately
Main
Main Character
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As African-Americans, people of that generation felt pretty much if they were going to see changes in the world, they had to make sacrifices and step up to the plate. I'm very proud that my parents happened to be people who did. They were not privileged to have a formal education.
Ruby Bridges
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Author
Formal
Formal Education
Privileged
Proud
Generation
Plate
Sacrifices
Step
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I quit my job in New India Insurance and was confronted by various options. I could either go to Pune to do a course in acting from Poona University or shift base to Bombay or Delhi and study at NSD. I opted for the latter because it is the best place to get a formal education in acting.
Atul Kulkarni
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Bombay
Delhi
Formal
Formal Education
Latter
Study
University
Base
Confronted
Insurance
Options
Quit
Shift
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Madam C.J. Walker was born in 1867, two years after the civil war ended. She was a daughter of a slave. She had no formal education. Both her parents died by the time she was seven. Yet, by the time she died in 1919 at age 51, she was one of the most successful businesswomen America had ever seen.
A'lelia Bundles
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Daughter
Education
Age
War
America
Born
Civil War
Died
Formal
Formal Education
Seven
Slave
Successful
Two
Years
Most
Time War Age
Had
After
Seen
By The Time
Civil
Ever
Ended
Her
Parents
Madam
She
Walker
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Thomas Young was born in 1731 in upstate New York. The child of impoverished Irish immigrants, he grew up in a log cabin without the benefit of a formal education. But he was an avid reader who began collecting books at a young age and eventually amassed one of the finest personal libraries in New England.
Matthew Stewart
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Education
New York
Age
Avid
Born
Collecting
England
Finest
Formal
Formal Education
Grew
Immigrants
New England
Reader
Upstate New York
Young Age
Child
Books
Began
Benefit
Cabin
Eventually
Impoverished
Libraries
Log
Log Cabin
Personal
Thomas
Upstate
York
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