Michel de Montaigne Quotes

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

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

Hands-on experience at the critical time, not systematic knowledge, is what counts in the making of a naturalist. Better to be an untutored savage for a while, not to know the names or anatomical detail. Better to spend stretches of time just searching and dreaming.

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.

When it comes time to teach, teach from your experience. Go out and do, learn from the doing, then teach from the knowing.

Hands-on experience is the best way to learn about all the interdisciplinary aspects of robotics.

Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.

Had I not been a philosopher in deeds, I would have devoted myself to the study of words

A gram of experience is worth a ton of theory.

There's a lot of things you can't learn unless you actually experience it.

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

Education is soul crafting.

Education has for its object the formation of character. To curb restive propensities, to awaken dormant sentiments, to strengthen the perceptions, and cultivate the tastes, to encourage this feeling and repress that, so as finally to develop the child into a man of well proportioned and harmonious nature, this is alike the aim of parent and teacher.

It wasn’t in books. It wasn’t in a church. What I needed to know was out there in the world.

Only in education, never in the life of farmer, sailor, merchant, physician, or laboratory experimenter, does knowledge mean primarily a store of information aloof from doing.

Next, to make them expert in the usefullest points of grammar; and withal to season them and win them early to the love of virtue and true labour, ere any flattering seducement or vain principle seize them wandering, some easy and delightful book of education would be read to them; whereof the Greeks have store, as Cebes, Plutarch, and other Socratic discourses.

I think also, that general virtue is more probably to be expected and obtained from the education of youth, than from exhortations of adult persons; bad habits and vices of the mind being, like diseases of the body, more easily prevented than cured. I think moreover, that talents for the education of youth are the gift of God; and that he on whom they are bestowed, whenever a way is opened for use of them, is as strongly called as if he heard a voice from heaven.

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

By education, I mean an all-round drawing of the best in child and man in body, mind and spirit.

Look for knowledge not in books but in things themselves.

I think perhaps education doesn’t do us much good unless it is mixed with sweat.

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

The central problem of an education based upon experience is to select the kind of present experience that live fruitfully and creatively in subsequent experiences.

Education must assume full responsibility to enter the moral and spiritual lives of pupils.

Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced