Elbert Hubbard Quotes

I mean that they (students) should not play life, or study it merely, while the community supports them at this expensive game, but earnestly live it from beginning to end. How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living? Methinks this would exercise their minds as much as mathematics.

Like all great teachers he knew that a picture is worth a thousand words and that people learn most quickly by doing something or seeing something done.

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

I have learned that, although I am a good teacher, I am a much better student, and I was blessed to learn valuable lessons from my students on a daily basis. They taught me the importance of teaching to a student - and not to a test.

The most important method of education always has consisted of that in which the pupil was urged to actual performance.

A good teacher offers practice, a bad one offers theories.

Only practical work and experience lead the young to maturity.

Students were taught by doing.

The point is that whatever one is trying to learn, it is necessary to have firsthand experience, rather than learning from books or from teachers or by merely conforming to an already established pattern.

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

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

All genuine education comes about through experience.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves.

One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.

The central problem of an education based upon experience is to select the kind of present experience that live fruitfully and creatively in subsequent experiences.

It's priceless what you learn when you actually do. It's like going to film school times eleven. The best education is effectively to be functioning in the occupation that you want to take on.

Teach by doing whenever you can, and only fall back upon words when doing it is out of the question.

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

I think we all learn by doing rather than thinking about doing.

There is only one way to learn. It's through action. Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey.

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

Merely to stuff the child with a lot of information, making him pass examinations, is the most unintelligent form of education.

Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner; put yourself in his place so that you may understand . . . what he learns and the way he understands it.

The school must be "a genuine form of active community life, instead of a place set apart in which to learn lessons".

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