When I took my first poetry class, I felt that I could understand the relationships between words and the formal qualities of language in a way I would never understand music.
There are many different ways that people get licensed or ordained through different ministries, denominations, etc. So - but for myself, there was no formal seminary.
As societies become more complex in structure and resources, the need of formal or intentional teaching and learning increases.
Why be formal when you can be fabulously feral? Why be conventional when you can be happy?
You might be a redneck if you have a very special baseball cap, just for formal occasions.
But typically for a project like the Mac, the size we had was pretty good. And it has different stages. The team grows as you have to write manuals and do testing. . . though the Mac had no formal testing.
Writing is like paying myself a formal visit.
Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.
Primo Levi's - I mean, he's a very different kind of writer. He's a much more formal writer. He's a much more -almost detached. I mean, I wouldn't really say that he's detached ultimately. But he does write as a scientist, and so he describes things very - in great detail, very carefully.
I've never been a big believer in formal education.
This merely formal conceiving of the facts of one's own wretchedness is at the same time a departure from them--placing them in the object. It is not idle, therefore, to observe reflexively that in that very Thought, one has separated himself from them, and is no longer that which empirically he still sees himself to be.
In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.
If you look at countries like South Africa, where you had a black majority, there have been efforts to tax and help that black majority, but it hasn't come in the form of a formal reparations program.
Formal learning can teach you a great deal, but many of the essential skills in life are the ones you have to develop on your own.
Don't freight your answers with any notions of what you're "supposed" to do, and just see where your feelings point you. It can feel weird to be so formal about it, but if you're not used to doing it, then there's no shame in retraining yourself.
When I first asked to take pictures of women at their homes, I was using my formal camera and I struggled to get the shots because I was still very much in the role of the photographer. Then the next time I had this little digital camera and their response to me would be completely different - I was a friend and I got new kinds of pictures. I was always treading a line between photographer and friend.
Architecture was the last of the major professions to devise a formal 'cursus honorum' before its practice could be undertaken.
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!
With photography, you are lucky if you get people to look at your pictures at some point. There's no formal way to show them.
My father had very little formal education.