John Dewey 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 is a certain amount you can learn from reading, but you also need to see and experience things.

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

I learned from watching and I learned form 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.

Education is cheap; experience is expensive.

The best way of learning about anything is by doing.

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

We cannot learn men from books.

You can read and read, but nothing eclipses experience.

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.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Events sometimes are the biggest teachers, as opposed to words, lectures, and that kind of thing.

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

The only way you learn is by doing. You learn through deed, so that's kind of my aspiration for the time being.

We learn to do by doing.

Modern psychology teaches that experience is not merely the best teacher, but the only possible teacher.. There is no war between theory and practice. The most valuable experience demands both, and the theory should supplement the practice and not precede it.

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

Activity is the only road to knowledge.

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

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

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.

Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand.

Doing real world projects is, I think, the best way to learn and also to engage the world and find out what the world is all about.