Charlie Heaton Quotes

One of the brilliant things I realised after I'd left school is that there are so many ways you can learn. I do this best on the job.

You learn more doing than doing training.

Stanford had no journalism program so I just learned by doing, effectively.

He never reckoned much to schooling and that. He said you could learn most what was worth knowing from keeping your eyes and ears peeled. Best way of learning, he always said, was doing.

I have no schooling in any normal sense but have learned from the best as far as just doing things. I learned filmmaking from loving movies and then just saying, 'OK, let's do it.'

Are any of us self-taught? It just means I didn't go to school for it. But you do have teachers. You have mentors.

I can't learn in school, but I can learn from somebody who I think is cool and great.

I learned from my peers, and I learned from doing projects, and I learned from mentors, but I learned very little from lectures, and I've talked about how little I attended them.

I think we all learn by doing rather than thinking about doing.

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 least of the work of learning is done in the classroom.

There's no experience like on-the-job training.

Education is hanging around until you've caught on.

The greatest teacher I know is the job itself.

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.

I've never been a big believer in formal education.

There's a lot out there for me to learn that isn't in college, so I think it's fine for me if I don't go yet.

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

The drills we do, where you're telling kids to memorize things, don't actually work. What works is engaging them and letting them do things and discover things.

I don't learn as well, I think, in like a structured way. I kind of have to be thrown into it.

I didn't have much of a formal education myself.

Throughout my career, some of my best hires have been people who have bypassed the traditional route of university and learned their skills through apprenticeship schemes or alternative education courses.

No one was like, 'Here's how you swing.' It was just like, 'Let's go hit and figure it out along the way.' I always kind of figured it out.

If you ask most smart or successful people where they learned their craft, they will not talk to you about their time in school. It's always a mentor, a particularly transformative job, or a period of experimentation or trial and error.