It's the way I study - to understand something by trying to work it out or, in other words, to understand something by creating it. Not creating it one hundred percent, of course; but taking a hint as to which direction to go but not remembering the details. These you work out for yourself.
We know more than we can tell.
Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it; men come to be builders, for instance, by building, and harp players by playing the harp. In the same way, by doing just acts we come to be just; by doing self-controlled acts, we come to be self-controlled ; and by doing brave acts, we become brave.
Not having heard something is not as good as having heard it; having heard it is not as good as having seen it; having seen it is not as good as knowing it; knowing it is not as good as putting it into practice.
People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.
Every man is the sum total of his reactions to experience. As your experiences differ and multiply, you become a different man, and hence your perspective changes. This goes on and on. Every reaction is a learning process; every significant experience alters your perspective.
Good judgment comes from experience. And where does experience come from? Experience comes from bad judgment.
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced--even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.
Tell me, I forget, show me, I remember, involve me, I understand.
Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
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.
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.
Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.
No one tells a child how to see, especially in the early years. They learn this through real-world experiences and examples.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
I never once made a discovery ... I speak without exaggeration that I have constructed three thousand different theories in connection with the electric light ... Yet in only two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory.
I feel like the bigger risks that I take, the more I learn. I know that I learn more from my failures than successes.
I've never been a big believer in formal education.
A gram of experience is worth a ton of theory.
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
You know, I went to Oberlin. At that time, grades were - you elected to have them or not. It was all of that era where grades were out the window. But I did very well in school. I didn't really study the arts; I practiced the arts.
By how much one man has more experience of things past, than another, by so much also he is more prudent, and his expectations the seldomer fail him.
Learning is not watching a video, learning is taking action and seeing what happens.
I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand.
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.
