Maria Montessori Quotes

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

A week of camp life is worth six months of theoretical teaching in the meeting room.

Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it; men come to be builders, for instance, by building, and harp players by playing the harp. In the same way, by doing just acts we come to be just; by doing self-controlled acts, we come to be self-controlled ; and by doing brave acts, we become brave.

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

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.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.

I may be only a fish and chip shop lady, but some of these economists need to get their heads out of the textbooks and get a job in the real world. I would not even let one of them handle my grocery shopping.

The greatest teacher I know is the job itself.

I just wasn't academic. I wanted to be in the real world.

You can do all the film school you want in classrooms, but if you are on the set, you are going to learn so much more because you are really in the middle of doing it.

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

I need more raw experience. I've read and watched a lot of things, but I haven't done a lot of things.

I learned from watching and I learned form doing.

The best preparation for work is not thinking about work, talking about work or studying for work. It is work.

We learn to do by doing.

My formal education as an extension to my college degree in journalism was the time that I spent working with the student newspaper. I would argue that my greatest education occurred by working for the student newspaper. It wasn't necessarily the classroom work that made my formal education special. It was the idea that I had the opportunity to practice it before I went into the real world.

There is only one way to learn. It's through action. Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey.

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

Common sense comes from experience, and kids need to fail as well as succeed in order to learn it. It's difficult to develop common sense when you spend a lot of time in your room where nothing much happens.

Education is cheap; experience is expensive.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves.

I believe that we learn by practice.

A man's real education begins after he has left school. True education is gained through the discipline of life.

What it takes to do a job will not be learned from management courses. It is principally a matter of experience, the proper attitude, and common sense — none of which can be taught in a classroom... Human experience shows that people, not organizations or management systems, get things done.

Anything that we have to learn to do we learn by the actual doing of it; People become builders by building and instrumentalists by playing instruments. Similarily, we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.