Theo Paphitis Quotes

A week of camp life is worth six months of theoretical teaching in the meeting room.

The greatest teacher I know is the job itself.

You have to look for teachers. If you want to be a mechanic, go hang out with mechanics.

The best preparation for work is not thinking about work, talking about work or studying for work. It is work.

If your route is that you are practically minded, and that is what presses your button, and you do an apprenticeship and you get a job that way, that is fantastic.

There's nothing that can replace learning on the field.

I wasn't a very good student. I prefer to learn by experience.

I didn't go to high school. I think that after you learn to read and write and do your numbers and flush the toilet behind yourself, you don't need no more schoolin'. You need to get out in the water and swim.

I started culinary school at a very young age, and really I wanted to be out working, cooking, more than I wanted to be in a classroom. You could say I wasn't a very good student - I wanted to be a student of life and experience.

I have no schooling in any normal sense but have learned from the best as far as just doing things. I learned filmmaking from loving movies and then just saying, 'OK, let's do it.'

Nothing replaces real-life experience. Of course, I say this as someone who went to law school.

In my generation, there was no sushi school, no cooking school, so people have to learn from working.

I just wasn't academic. I wanted to be in the real world.

You learn more doing than doing training.

You can do all the film school you want in classrooms, but if you are on the set, you are going to learn so much more because you are really in the middle of doing it.

The best job training is a job – any job.

You don't lose weight by watching someone else exercise. You don't learn by watching someone else solve problems. It became clear to me that the only way to do online learning effectively is to have students solve problems.

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

You can go to school and learn and that works for some people. But I think the best kind of learning is practical and learning on the job.

If you read books forever and ever, they will never replace what really counts - that's practical experience.

Work-based learning is a game changer. It's like test driving a career, and I have seen it in action with our registered apprenticeship programs for high school students.

For many young people on-the-job training and hands-on experience is the real route to employability, not a university education.

Throughout my career, some of my best hires have been people who have bypassed the traditional route of university and learned their skills through apprenticeship schemes or alternative education courses.

One of the brilliant things I realised after I'd left school is that there are so many ways you can learn. I do this best on the job.

In most every business, you learn by doing. The apprenticeship model is much more effective than the classroom for cultivating entrepreneurs.