Nick Davies Quotes

I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.

Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.

Nothing replaces real-life experience. Of course, I say this as someone who went to law school.

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

The best job training is a job – any job.

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

Life experiences cannot be learnt on the film set or in front of the camera.

Experience helps you read certain situations better and make less mistakes in terms of behavior.

There's a lot of things you can't learn unless you actually experience it.

It's very rare that someone who is so good at the language of numbers, is as good at the language of life. They're two very different worlds.

It wasn’t in books. It wasn’t in a church. What I needed to know was out there in the world.

Common sense comes from experience, and kids need to fail as well as succeed in order to learn it. It's difficult to develop common sense when you spend a lot of time in your room where nothing much happens.

Your people smarts will prove ten times more valuable than all the book smarts you can't get.

It's like people always say, Well, does sport teach you anything in life? It teaches you certain things, but it doesn't teach you other things. It doesn't teach, as I say, very much about marriage, very much about how to make a living, any of those things.

You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to see and feel.

However much you are read in theory, if thou hast no practice thou art ignorant

Is listening important? I can't think of a single walk of life where it wouldn't be.

But the best demonstration by far is experience, if it go not beyond the actual experiment.

I went to a middle-class school, but my background is working class. I got the best of both worlds, I saw both classes, so I have a pretty fair idea of how people live and why they do it.

The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful.

School doesn't really teach you how to interact with people properly, you learn that outside of school.

It is practice first, and knowledge afterwards.

The world can doubtless never be well known by theory: practice is absolutely necessary; but surely it is of great use to a young man, before he sets out for that country, full of mazes, windings, and turnings, to have at least a general map of it, made by some experienced traveler.

The surest way to learn is by doing it, but often, the lesson is: Don't do it!

A man's real education begins after he has left school. True education is gained through the discipline of life.