Ray Kurzweil Quotes

I believe that the best way to help people understand the world is to provide them with opportunities to actively explore, experiment, and express themselves.

Working through experience is best for me, just being there and trying to get into the mode.

Participation, I think, or one of the best methods of educating.

The best way to learn is by doing. The only way to build a strong work ethic is getting your hands dirty.

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.

Hands-on experience is the best way to learn about all the interdisciplinary aspects of robotics.

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

The best university is the university of life.

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.

Practical knowledge of what works and what doesn't work is much better. Theoretical knowledge is important, but I think practical knowledge works better.

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

Activity is the only road to knowledge.

Only in education, never in the life of farmer, sailor, merchant, physician, or laboratory experimenter, does knowledge mean primarily a store of information aloof from doing.

All genuine education comes about through experience.

I now know that I learn by solving problems as they arise. Rarely do we learn significant lessons, or significantly improve, any other way.

Teenagers learn best by doing things, they learn best in teams and they learn best by doing things for real - all the opposite of what mainstream schooling actually does.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.

The best way to figure out how something works is to try to build it from scratch.

Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation.

Kids get bored easily. They have got to get out and get their hands dirty: make things, dismantle things, fix things.

I may be only a fish and chip shop lady, but some of these economists need to get their heads out of the textbooks and get a job in the real world. I would not even let one of them handle my grocery shopping.

In an undergraduate business environment, the best learning experience is the interaction students have with each other. They need to learn from each other as much as from professors and lectures and other teaching tools.

I haven't even graduated from high school yet - and I've realised in the last four years, with all the travelling I've done and all of the movies I've made, that the world is my classroom. I've experienced things I don't know you can necessarily get from reading a history book.

You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.

Seriously, who really cares how long the Nile river is, or who was the first to discover cheese? How is memorizing that ever going to help anyone? Instead, we need to give kids projects that allow them to exercise their minds and discover things for themselves.