Kim Reynolds Quotes

We have seen a shift in the focus of education before entering the workplace, with earning and learning the new norm.

I feel that working now is the way for me to learn things, whether it's languages or another activity.

If we want boys to succeed, we need to bring them back to education by making education relevant to them and bring in more service learning and vocational education.

You learn more doing than doing training.

I learned from watching and I learned form doing.

The best preparation for work is not thinking about work, or talking about work, or studying about work, or even learning about work -- the best preparation is work.

If you are willing to be a lifelong learner, you can be a lifelong employee.

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

My favorite way of learning for acting has been doing it, not talking about it.

From a young age I had a real sense of the world of work. This is what vocational education gives you.

We need more partnerships like Vigor Industrial and Portland Community College where men and women in search of a career can get the training they need to get hired right out of school.

Generally, when I am working, I tend to learn from my seniors and juniors.

If your route is that you are practically minded, and that is what presses your button, and you do an apprenticeship and you get a job that way, that is fantastic.

We learn to do by doing.

Most of life is on-the-job training. Some of the most important things can only be learned in the process of doing them. You do something and you get feedback - about what works and what doesn't. If you don't do anything for fear of doing it wrong, poorly, or badly, you never get any feedback, and therefore you never get to improve.

I feel strongly that we have to have an education system that starts with preschool and goes through college. That's why I want more technical education in high schools and in community colleges, real apprenticeships to prepare young people for the jobs of the future.

I think one of the worst things schools have done is taken out all of the stuff like art, music, woodworking, sewing, cooking, welding, auto-shop. All these things you can turn into careers. How can you get interested in these careers if you don't try them on a little bit?

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

Only practical work and experience lead the young to maturity.

Activity is the only road to knowledge.

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.

I see all these students, and I admire them - they're trying to learn something, they go to school, they do film school, they go on shoots, they help. I'm sure they learn a lot, and some of them, it makes them aware of what they wish to do. I was - that's the way I was - autodidact.

You cannot, by all the lecturing in the world, enable a man to make a shoe.

There is only one way to learn... It's through action.