William James Quotes

A practical part of my teaching is to provide demonstrative, hands-on experiences.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Learning is not watching a video, learning is taking action and seeing what happens.

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

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

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

All of our schools need to bring 'learn from doing' into the mainstream education, not just afternoon.

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

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.

Where are these rational practices to be taught and acquired? Not within the four walls of a bare building, in which formality predominates... But in the nursery, play-ground, fields, gardens, workshops, manufactures, museums and class-rooms. ...The facts collected from all these sources will be concentrated, explained, discussed, made obvious to all, and shown in their direct application to practice in all the business of life.

When it comes time to teach, teach from your experience. Go out and do, learn from the doing, then teach from the knowing.

I wanted to make noise, not study theory.

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.

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

We are getting an education of a lifetime. We're actually out there in the real world.

You can learn so much just by doing, not by listening to anybody.

You learn more doing than doing training.

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.