Everyone should get dirt on his hands each day. Doctors, intellectuals. Politicians, most of all. How can we presume to uplift the life of the working man, if we don't respect his work?
Tell me, I forget, show me, I remember, involve me, I understand.
We should have A-levels in vocational subjects.
A gram of experience is worth a ton of theory.
Learning is not watching a video, learning is taking action and seeing what happens.
Knowing how to swim doesn't come from someone else showing you or someone else telling you or watching movies of other people swimming. It comes from having been in the water, knowing how to move yourself through the water and not sink. And it's true of virtually everything in our lives: knowing comes from direct experience.
There is no substitute for face-to-face reporting and research.
I always believe that a person can learn so much by just jumping into something and trying to do it rather than having someone else teach you everything.
You're not going to learn how to do it until you do it.
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Knowledge must come through action.
If you want to learn to swim you have to throw yourself in the water.
An ounce of practice is worth a ton of theory!
You can read about it all you want, but there is no substitute for just doing it.
But isn't the knowledge that comes from experience more valuable than the knowledge that doesn't? It seems fairly obvious to some of us that a lot of scholars need to go outside and sniff around - walk through the grass, talk to the animals. That sort of thing.
You only learn if you're given a crack at things.
I knew a man who grabbed a cat by the tail and learned forty percent more about cats than the man who didn't.
With wisdom fraught; not such as books, but such as practice taught.
Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
The best learning happens in real life with real problems and real people and not in classrooms.
The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful.
For what one has to learn to do, we learn by doing.
There are some careers where hands-on experience means so much more than the book work of it.
If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you.
I'm an extreme do'er - I'm not an intellect; I'm not a bookworm. I do, do, do, and nine times out of ten, I fail, but I learn from that.
