Anthony de Mello Quotes

We learn to do by doing.

Modern psychology teaches that experience is not merely the best teacher, but the only possible teacher.. There is no war between theory and practice. The most valuable experience demands both, and the theory should supplement the practice and not precede it.

Learning is not watching a video, learning is taking action and seeing what happens.

That education is not an affair of "telling" and being told, but an active and constructive process, is a principle almost as generally violated in practice as conceded in theory. Is not this deplorable situation due to the fact that the doctrine is itself merely told? It is preached; it is lectured; it is written about.

Like all great teachers he knew that a picture is worth a thousand words and that people learn most quickly by doing something or seeing something done.

There is only one way to learn. It's through action. Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

Don't preach too much to your pupils or abound in good talk in the abstract. Lie in wait rather for the practical opportunities, be prompt to seize those as they pass, and thus at one operation get your pupils both to think, to feel, and to do.

For what one has to learn to do, we learn by doing.

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

A practical part of my teaching is to provide demonstrative, hands-on experiences.

I have learned that, although I am a good teacher, I am a much better student, and I was blessed to learn valuable lessons from my students on a daily basis. They taught me the importance of teaching to a student - and not to a test.

I think we all learn by doing rather than thinking about doing.

There is only one way to learn... It's through action.

Knowledge must come through action.

All of our schools need to bring 'learn from doing' into the mainstream education, not just afternoon.

However much you are read in theory, if thou hast no practice thou art ignorant

Learning has to come from doing, not intellectualizing.

Teenagers learn best by doing things, they learn best in teams and they learn best by doing things for real - all the opposite of what mainstream schooling actually does.

You can read about it all you want, but there is no substitute for just doing it.

So what does a good teacher do? Create tension - but just the right amount.

Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.

In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.