Ernest Shackleton Quotes

I learned from watching and I learned form doing.

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.

As formal teaching and training grow in extent, there is the danger of creating an undesirable split between the experience gained in more direct associations and what is acquired in school. This danger was never greater than at the present time, on account of the rapid growth in the last few centuries of knowledge and technical modes of skill.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

You have to think about what you want to do. There is nothing to say that you should study from the age of 20 to 23. I learnt more on a film set at 17 than in the classroom.

The world is the true classroom. The most rewarding and important type of learning is through experience, seeing something with our own eyes.

A gram of experience is worth a ton of theory.

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

Are any of us self-taught? It just means I didn't go to school for it. But you do have teachers. You have mentors.

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.

I learned from my peers, and I learned from doing projects, and I learned from mentors, but I learned very little from lectures, and I've talked about how little I attended them.

Knowledge can only be got in one way, the way of experience; there is no other way to know.

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.

I certainly didn't learn anything in school. My education was the world.

Feed the growing human being, feed him with the sort of experience for which from year to year he shows a natural craving, and he will develop in adult life a sounder sort of mental tissue, even though he may seem to be 'wasting' a great deal of his growing time, in the eyes of those for whom the only channels of learning are books and verbally communicated information.

Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.

Knowledge gained through experience is far superior and many times more useful than bookish knowledge.

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.

I learned just by going around. I know all about Kleenex factories, and all sorts of things.