George Washington Quotes

Those who are enamoured of practice without science are like a pilot who goes into a ship without rudder or compass and never has any certainty of where he is going. Practice should always be based upon a sound knowledge of theory.

The primary difference that I have found between the system of education in India and other countries, particularly the U.S., is that they focus on problem solving and relating theories to reality around them. These two things are lacking in the education system in India.

It never occurred to any of us to consult in this emergency farmers, doctors, lawyers, shoemakers, or even statesmen. We could not escape the belief that the prospect of obtaining what we needed might be somewhat improved by making application to those whose business and surroundings qualified them to intelligently respond.

Action without study fatal. Study without action is futile.

Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

There's no substitute for rolling up your sleeves and working with the people who can make a difference. They get the benefit of your participation and you gain a direct understanding of the real problems and potential solutions, which makes you a more informed giver.

What you know is what you know, both culturally and practically, and you use it to the greatest effect you can.

I don't like to move abstract theoretical policies that, on a white paper, sound good. If I wanted to do that, I'd be a professor.

I always say to students, 'You're never going to have all the skills, but you have to have a skill.'

In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.

It is not man's dreams that fail him. It is the lack of know-how required to bring those dreams into actuality.

A school is a place through which you have to pass before entering life, but where the teaching proper does not prepare you for life.

There is no discipline in the world so severe as the discipline of experience subjected to the tests of intelligent development and direction.

The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows.

Experts say that children are not born criminals, nor pampered parasites. They are made that way by the environment in which they live.

Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.

Experience will guide us to the rules. You cannot make rules precede practical experience.

The art model of problem solving is incredibly efficient because ideology has no place there.There's only the thing and what the thing needs to be.

President Obama is like a lost man who refuses to ask for directions. That's because he has never worked in the real world with people who create real jobs. He operates on theories and an ideology that is incapable of achieving his goals.

There's something wrong - the performance, the weather, the set design, the lighting. Something is not working. And so you say, "Give me 10 minutes." When you're first directing, you're terrified. But when you've been in that situation enough times, you know that under pressure, it will come to you.

Education without execution is extinction

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

Eventually, I decided that thinking was not getting me very far and it was time to try building.

Impossible situations are our specialty.

At issue is not only knowledge of the world but our survival as individuals and as a species. All the basic technologies ever invented by humans to feed and protect themselves depend on a relentless commitment to hard-nosed empiricism: you cannot assume that your arrowheads will pierce the hide of a bison or that your raft will float just because the omens are propitious and you have been given supernatural reassurance that they will. You have to be sure.