Khaled Hosseini Quotes

The world is the true classroom. The most rewarding and important type of learning is through experience, seeing something with our own eyes.

There's nothing that can teach you more than experience.

If your education is not enough, experience will teach you lessons.

The greatest teacher I know is the job itself.

I learned from watching and I learned form doing.

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

There's a lot of things you can't learn unless you actually experience it.

Medicine is learned by the bedside and not in the classroom. Let not your conceptions of disease come from words heard in the lecture room or read from the book. See, and then reason and compare and control. But see first.

It wasn’t in books. It wasn’t in a church. What I needed to know was out there in the world.

Common sense comes from experience, and kids need to fail as well as succeed in order to learn it. It's difficult to develop common sense when you spend a lot of time in your room where nothing much happens.

Education is cheap; experience is expensive.

Maybe that sounds a bit pretentious, but I think life experience is always more important than technical knowledge.

When it comes time to teach, teach from your experience. Go out and do, learn from the doing, then teach from the knowing.

We cannot learn men from books.

I haven't even graduated from high school yet - and I've realised in the last four years, with all the travelling I've done and all of the movies I've made, that the world is my classroom. I've experienced things I don't know you can necessarily get from reading a history book.

I'm not a prophet. I'm not a teacher. I have no degrees. My degree is from the University of Life.

Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur.

I learn from experience.

I don't care how smart a kid you are. The only way you learn what's not right is from experience.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.

Human beings evolved opposable thumbs for a reason. The sense of reward you get from making something with your hands can't be earned any other way. It's obvious that people learn faster from 'hands-on' experience than they do watching someone else do something.

Most of my life wasn't about knowledge from books, but experiential knowledge.