Richard P. Feynman Quotes

Kids get bored easily. They have got to get out and get their hands dirty: make things, dismantle things, fix things.

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.

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

Learners are encouraged to discover facts and relationships for themselves.

My strong feeling is that we must learn more about how we learn. I'm convinced that we learn by struggling to find the solution to a problem on our own with some guidance, but getting in and getting our hands dirty and working it.

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

I learn the most from making my own mistakes.

I would argue that education, actual learning - it is hard work. It's very personal. Your parents don't teach you anything. Your teachers don't teach you anything. The government doesn't teach you anything. You read it. You don't understand it; you read it again. You break a pencil and read it again.

Seriously, who really cares how long the Nile river is, or who was the first to discover cheese? How is memorizing that ever going to help anyone? Instead, we need to give kids projects that allow them to exercise their minds and discover things for themselves.

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

I believe that the best way to help people understand the world is to provide them with opportunities to actively explore, experiment, and express themselves.

I don't care how smart a kid you are. The only way you learn what's not right is from experience.

You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

Teaching can be learning, especially if student curiosity with the question 'What's going on here?' can be elicited.

Whatever I learned reading 'Scientific American,' nothing can finally compete with your own observations.

When you are studying from a book, lots of people go straight to the end to look for the answers. But that's not my style. For me, the most enjoyable part is the puzzle, the process of solving, not the solution itself.

Kids need time for problem solving, critical thinking, applying knowledge through project-based instruction, working in teams, falling down and getting right back up to figure out what they didn't understand and why.

I like to learn through doing. Let me make a mistake, and then critique me on what I did so that I learn that way.

The best way to learn is getting out there, getting reps, and making mistakes.

My learning process has always been very idea-oriented. I never sat down with a book being like, 'OK, now I'm going to learn about transistors.' Instead I had an idea that I really liked and learned as I was trying to figure out how to build it.

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

It's similar to basketball: when you go to different gyms and win or lose, you learn something new. So when kids get out of the classroom, go to a new environment and meet different people, it opens their eyes to new things, and they have fun learning.

I'm very inquisitive, and I always have questions and need to touch things to see how it works or why it works.

I think the best learning is done with active manipulation. And we need to be able to work with our hands; it's not just about using our brains.