Peter McWilliams Quotes

I learned from watching and I learned form doing.

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.

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

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

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.

Learn by doing. Theory is nice, but nothing replaces actual experience.

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

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.

The best way of learning about anything is by doing.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

There's nothing that can replace learning on the field.

We learn to do by doing.

Learning cannot be disassociated from action.

Like all great teachers he knew that a picture is worth a thousand words and that people learn most quickly by doing something or seeing something done.

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.

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

All genuine education comes about through experience.