Jane Addams Quotes

Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training.

You know what's better than building things up in your imagination? Building things up in real life.

Theoretical approaches have their place and are, I suppose, essential but a theory must be tempered with reality.

Theory is good for the intellect, but action is good for the soul. It's also good for your mental health, your physical health, and your pocketbook.

We were taught instead of just reading about life we needed to go out and live it.

A good teacher offers practice, a bad one offers theories.

There is no discipline in the world so severe as the discipline of experience subjected to the tests of intelligent development and direction.

Action without study fatal. Study without action is futile.

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

The best learning happens in real life with real problems and real people and not in classrooms.

I firmly believe people have hitherto been a great deal too much taken up about doctrine and far too little about practice. The word "doctrine," as used in the Bible, means teaching of duty, not theory.

Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.

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

Education without execution is extinction

You must know the difference between imagination, theoretical knowledge and true realization. Could you nourish yourself by only listening to a talk on food? To know food only theoretically is to always remain hungry. You must eat to satisfy hunger. So he who seeks new doctrines continuously but does not put them into practice in his life is in continual spiritual starvation.

You don't study photography. You do it.

An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.

As formal teaching and training grow in extent, there is the danger of creating an undesirable split between the experience gained in more direct associations and what is acquired in school. This danger was never greater than at the present time, on account of the rapid growth in the last few centuries of knowledge and technical modes of skill.

However much you are read in theory, if thou hast no practice thou art ignorant

One ounce of practice is worth a thousand pounds of theory.

Teaching is all armchair. I learn about writing by writing and thinking about what I've written and throwing it away.

However much you study, you cannot know without action. A donkey laden with books is neither an intellectual nor a wise man. Empty of essence, what learning has he whether upon him is firewood or book?

Those who are enamoured of practice without science are like a pilot who goes into a ship without rudder or compass and never has any certainty of where he is going. Practice should always be based upon a sound knowledge of theory.

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