James Forman Jr. Quotes

I learned from watching and I learned form doing.

All genuine education comes about through experience.

You can read and read, but nothing eclipses experience.

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

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

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

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

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

Knowing how to swim doesn't come from someone else showing you or someone else telling you or watching movies of other people swimming. It comes from having been in the water, knowing how to move yourself through the water and not sink. And it's true of virtually everything in our lives: knowing comes from direct experience.

Learn by doing. Learn through experiences. And this goes back to Steve Jobs' thing - which is the way you open up your knowledge of the world is by discovering it and learning about it, not through books, but by being there.

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

Tell me, I forget, show me, I remember, involve me, I understand.

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.

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

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

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

The world is the true classroom. The most rewarding and important type of learning is through experience, seeing something with our own eyes.

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

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

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

A gram of experience is worth a ton of theory.

I'm a guy that, I like to learn by seeing things.

Reading is learning, but applying is also learning and the more important kind of learning at that. Our chief method is to learn warfare through warfare. A person who has had no opportunity to go to school can also learn warfare — he can learn through fighting in a war.

The point is that whatever one is trying to learn, it is necessary to have firsthand experience, rather than learning from books or from teachers or by merely conforming to an already established pattern.