John Dewey Quotes

There are two schools. The school where you go and open a book, and then there's the school of life. When you learn hands-on, often you don't understand why you do what you do and what's the word for that action.

Education is cheap; experience is expensive.

You can do all the film school you want in classrooms, but if you are on the set, you are going to learn so much more because you are really in the middle of doing it.

While you are walking you would learn much more about filmmaking than if you were in a classroom. During your voyage you will learn more about what your future holds than in five years at film school. Your experiences would be the very opposite of academic knowledge, for academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion.

He never reckoned much to schooling and that. He said you could learn most what was worth knowing from keeping your eyes and ears peeled. Best way of learning, he always said, was doing.

It is practice first, and knowledge afterwards.

People are experience-rich and theory-poor.

I do not know what 'moss' stands for in the proverb , but if it stood for useful knowledge... I gathered more moss by rolling than I ever did at school.

I am an engineer, but what I find important and necessary is that you just learn things as you go along.

You can read and read, but nothing eclipses experience.

When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.'

The best preparation for work is not thinking about work, talking about work or studying for work. It is work.

A gram of experience is worth a ton of theory.

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

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

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

There's more learning than is taught in books.

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

Reading is learning, but applying is also learning and the more important kind of learning at that. Our chief method is to learn warfare through warfare. A person who has had no opportunity to go to school can also learn warfare — he can learn through fighting in a war.

Knowledge must come through action.

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

What is learned in high school, or for that matter anywhere at all, depends far less on what is taught than on what one actually experiences in the place.

We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.

All genuine education comes about through experience.

One gains at least two to three times more experience grabbing the tiger by the tail than reading about it in a book.