James Russell Lowell Quotes

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

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

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

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

The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again.

Learn avidly. Question repeatedly what you have learned. Analyze it carefully. Then put what you have learned into practice intelligently.

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

It is a well known fact that a man learns best that which he endeavors to teach others.

I forget the greater part of what I read, but all the same it nourishes my mind.

An important verity about knowledge is that the brain works most effectively with consciously retained information. We more easily remember what we want to recall later. When we feed our fourteen billion brain cells with information that will enrich us and help others, we are really learning to Think Big.

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

Memory is like a spiderweb that catches new information. The more it catches, the bigger it grows. And the bigger it grows, the more it catches.

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.

What you hear, you forget; what you see, you remember; what you do, you understand.

I believe that we learn by practice.

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

Learning has to come from doing, not intellectualizing.

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.

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.

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.

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

A man of sense, though born without wit, often lives to have wit. His memory treasures up ideas and reflections; he compares themwith new occurrences, and strikes out new lights from the collision. The consequence is sometimes bons mots, and sometimes apothegms.

The mind must be trained, rather than the memory.

We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures