John Dewey Quotes

I learned from watching and I learned form doing.

The only way of learning the method of science is the long and bitter way of personal experience.

There's nothing that can teach you more than experience.

All genuine education comes about through experience.

You can read and read, but nothing eclipses experience.

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

I learn from experience.

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

I don't care how smart a kid you are. The only way you learn what's not right is from experience.

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.

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

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

Events sometimes are the biggest teachers, as opposed to words, lectures, and that kind of thing.

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

Practical knowledge of what works and what doesn't work is much better. Theoretical knowledge is important, but I think practical knowledge works better.

The best way to learn is getting out there, getting reps, and making mistakes.

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

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

You learn out of bitter experience, trial and error. Life teaches you that. As sincere as you all are, you can't learn it all in school.

Experience is our only teacher both in war and peace.

Modern psychology teaches that experience is not merely the best teacher, but the only possible teacher.. There is no war between theory and practice. The most valuable experience demands both, and the theory should supplement the practice and not precede it.

Experience by itself teaches nothing.

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

I learned it by doing it, and I was scared to death.

Activity is the only road to knowledge.