Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Learning is an active process. We learn by doing.. Only knowledge that is used sticks in your mind.

Learning by doing is the only way I know how to learn.

A learned person will become noble only when he or she has put into real practice what has been learned, instead of mere words.

Only in education, never in the life of farmer, sailor, merchant, physician, or laboratory experimenter, does knowledge mean primarily a store of information aloof from doing.

In such an environment, I was able to study things that could be of immediate usefulness to the world. That learning experience undoubtedly served me well when I eventually entered the work force.

Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training.

The difficulty in our education up till now lies, for the most part, in the fact that knowledge did not refine itself into will, to application of itself, to pure practice. The realists felt the need and supplied it, though in a most miserable way, by cultivating idea-less and fettered "practical men." Most college students are living examples of this sad turn of events. Trained in the most excellent manner, they go on training; drilled they continue drilling.

Knowledge without mileage equals bullshit.

You don't study photography. You do it.

Learn by doing. Theory is nice, but nothing replaces actual experience.

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

To learn anything other than the stuff you find in books, you need to be able to experiment, to make mistakes, to accept feedback, and to try again. It doesn't matter whether you are learning to ride a bike or starting a new career, the cycle of experiment, feedback, and new experiment is always there.

Practical application is the only mordant which will set things in the memory. Study without it is gymnastics, and not work, which alone will get intellectual bread.

Anything that we have to learn to do we learn by the actual doing of it; People become builders by building and instrumentalists by playing instruments. Similarily, we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.

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

A man has only so much knowledge as he puts to work.

I have always found it difficult to study. I have learnt almost entirely what I have learnt by trying it out on the dog.

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

You're not going to learn how to do it until you do it.

There are those who spend their lives studying it and those who spend their lives doing it.

The sole justification of teaching, of the school itself, is that the student comes out of it able to do something he could not do before. I say do and not know, because knowledge that doesn't lead to doing something new or doing something better is not knowledge at all.

We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.

Western traditions of education have emphasized knowledge analysis, description and debate. They all have a part to play, but today there is a whole vast aspect of doing that has just been left out. Operacy is what keeps society going.

Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.