Henry David Thoreau Quotes

A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.

One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.

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.

You're not going to learn how to do it until you do it.

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

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

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

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

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

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.

I need more raw experience. I've read and watched a lot of things, but I haven't done a lot of things.

I learned from watching and I learned form doing.

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.

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.

Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it; men come to be builders, for instance, by building, and harp players by playing the harp. In the same way, by doing just acts we come to be just; by doing self-controlled acts, we come to be self-controlled ; and by doing brave acts, we become brave.

We were taught instead of just reading about life we needed to go out and live it.

Learning cannot be disassociated from action.

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

Only practical work and experience lead the young to maturity.

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

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.

The grand result of schooling is a mind with just vision to discern, with free force to do: the grand schoolmaster is Practice.