Seneca the Younger Quotes

I learned from watching and I learned form doing.

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

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

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

A gram of experience is worth a ton of theory.

Practical knowledge of what works and what doesn't work is much better. Theoretical knowledge is important, but I think practical knowledge works better.

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

Knowledge gained through experience is far superior and many times more useful than bookish knowledge.

We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.

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

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

If we taught music the way we try to teach engineering, in an unbroken four year course, we could end up with all theory and no music. When we study music, we start to practice from the beginning, and we practice for the entire time.

Knowing how to swim doesn't come from someone else showing you or someone else telling you or watching movies of other people swimming. It comes from having been in the water, knowing how to move yourself through the water and not sink. And it's true of virtually everything in our lives: knowing comes from direct experience.

Where are these rational practices to be taught and acquired? Not within the four walls of a bare building, in which formality predominates... But in the nursery, play-ground, fields, gardens, workshops, manufactures, museums and class-rooms. ...The facts collected from all these sources will be concentrated, explained, discussed, made obvious to all, and shown in their direct application to practice in all the business of life.

The best way of learning about anything is by doing.

A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was gitting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful.

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.

When you learn through coding, [you're] coding to learn. You're learning it in a meaningful context, and that's the best way of learning things.

All genuine education comes about through experience.

It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more effectually, but more pleasantly.

One gains at least two to three times more experience grabbing the tiger by the tail than reading about it in a book.

Education is cheap; experience is expensive.

Come down here once, and use your eyes, and you will know more than we can teach you.