David McCullough Quotes

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.

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

It's the way I study - to understand something by trying to work it out or, in other words, to understand something by creating it. Not creating it one hundred percent, of course; but taking a hint as to which direction to go but not remembering the details. These you work out for yourself.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Learning is not watching a video, learning is taking action and seeing what happens.

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

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

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

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

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.

I really liked figuring things out on my own. Early on in the development of a new version of Windows, I would explore it, I would try out various things, I would see what worked, I would see what didn't work.

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

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

The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.

Learners are encouraged to discover facts and relationships for themselves.

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

I learned from watching and I learned form doing.

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.

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.