Tony Fadell Quotes

Learning is an active process. We learn by doing.. Only knowledge that is used sticks in your mind.

There is only one way to learn... It's through action.

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

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

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

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

All genuine education comes about through experience.

A practical part of my teaching is to provide demonstrative, hands-on experiences.

People learn more if they're learning in directly engaging ways.

I learned from watching and I learned form doing.

Events sometimes are the biggest teachers, as opposed to words, lectures, and that kind of thing.

My favorite way of learning for acting has been doing it, not talking about it.

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

There's nothing that can replace learning on the field.

Like all great teachers he knew that a picture is worth a thousand words and that people learn most quickly by doing something or seeing something done.

I think we all learn by doing rather than thinking about doing.

Students were taught by doing.

Learn by doing. Theory is nice, but nothing replaces actual experience.

The point is that whatever one is trying to learn, it is necessary to have firsthand experience, rather than learning from books or from teachers or by merely conforming to an already established pattern.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

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

I believe that we learn by practice.

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

To learn anything other than the stuff you find in books, you need to be able to experiment, to make mistakes, to accept feedback, and to try again. It doesn't matter whether you are learning to ride a bike or starting a new career, the cycle of experiment, feedback, and new experiment is always there.

Practical application is the only mordant which will set things in the memory. Study without it is gymnastics, and not work, which alone will get intellectual bread.