Ross Martin Quotes

The difficulty in our education up till now lies, for the most part, in the fact that knowledge did not refine itself into will, to application of itself, to pure practice. The realists felt the need and supplied it, though in a most miserable way, by cultivating idea-less and fettered "practical men." Most college students are living examples of this sad turn of events. Trained in the most excellent manner, they go on training; drilled they continue drilling.

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

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.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.

I may be only a fish and chip shop lady, but some of these economists need to get their heads out of the textbooks and get a job in the real world. I would not even let one of them handle my grocery shopping.

The primary difference that I have found between the system of education in India and other countries, particularly the U.S., is that they focus on problem solving and relating theories to reality around them. These two things are lacking in the education system in India.

In such an environment, I was able to study things that could be of immediate usefulness to the world. That learning experience undoubtedly served me well when I eventually entered the work force.

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

Doing real world projects is, I think, the best way to learn and also to engage the world and find out what the world is all about.

A practical part of my teaching is to provide demonstrative, hands-on experiences.

You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Business students are very oriented to playing a role in the real world and accomplishing something, not training themselves to be scholars and contribute to the literature. Teaching in that kind of environment has focused me much more on the real world, how pieces of the theory I know can be applied to real-world situations.

I just wasn't academic. I wanted to be in the real world.

I'd much rather be in the world than in some ivory tower somewhere.

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 most important method of education always has consisted of that in which the pupil was urged to actual performance.

Learning cannot be disassociated from action.

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

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

A learned person will become noble only when he or she has put into real practice what has been learned, instead of mere words.

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

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.

Students were taught by doing.

Learning is defined as a change in behavior. You haven't learned a thing until you take action and use it.

I mean that they (students) should not play life, or study it merely, while the community supports them at this expensive game, but earnestly live it from beginning to end. How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living? Methinks this would exercise their minds as much as mathematics.