Confucius Quotes

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

Tell me, I forget, show me, I remember, involve me, I understand.

What you hear, you forget; what you see, you remember; what you do, you understand.

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

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

A commitment to human rights cannot be fostered simply through the transmission of knowledge. Action and experience play a crucial role in the learning process.

Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything!

The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.

That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.

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

I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand.

Events are the best teacher for us. You try to learn from people, there is always some bend to it.

The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.

I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you.

I do think observing is important in learning.

I like to read and understand.

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

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.

Experience by itself teaches nothing.

It's better to understand something than to memorize something.

It occurs to her that she should record this flash of insight in her journal - otherwise she is sure to forget, for she is someone who is always learning and forgetting and obliged to learn again.

What I learned in school, what I learned in the educational part of my life. Trying to acquire a kind of a bird's eye view. You drive hard and see everything. And that's called education because now you can see everything.

All genuine education comes about through experience.