experimental learning Quotes

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 knew a man who grabbed a cat by the tail and learned forty percent more about cats than the man who didn't.

The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful.

I decided I wanted to go to Cambridge, and then I got introduced to Fred Sanger. I was very conscientious, and I asked him when I first got there if I should start reading up on things. But he said, 'No, I think you can just start these experiments,' so I plunged right in.

Scientists learn about the world in three ways: They analyze statistical patterns in the data, they do experiments, and they learn from the data and ideas of other scientists. The recent studies show that children also learn in these ways.

Children are just little scientists.

Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth.

The national school is not a lecture hall or a library. Its schooling consists chiefly in experimental collective action aimed at the realization of a collective purpose.

One of the things about the arts that is so important is that in the arts you discover the only way to learn how to do it is by doing it. You can't write by reading a book about it. The only way to learn how to write a book is to sit down and try to write a book

The point is that whatever one is trying to learn, it is necessary to have firsthand experience, rather than learning from books or from teachers or by merely conforming to an already established pattern.

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

Hands-on experience is the best way to learn about all the interdisciplinary aspects of robotics.

I have always found it difficult to study. I have learnt almost entirely what I have learnt by trying it out on the dog.

In the history of enterprise, most of the protagonists of major new products and companies began their education - not in the classroom, where the old ways are taught, but in the factories and labs where new ways are wrought ... nothing has been so rare in recent years as an Ivy League graduate who has made a significant innovation in American enterprise.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

Science in textbooks is not fun. But if you start doing science yourself, you will find delight.

You will learn more by walking from Canada to Guatemala than you will ever learn in film school.

Play gives children a chance to practice what they are learning...They have to play with what they know to be true in order to find out more, and then they can use what they learn in new forms of play.

I discovered that in a story I could safely dream any dream, hope any hope, go anywhere I pleased any time I pleased, fight any foe, win or lose, live or die. My stories created a safe experimental learning place.

Tinkering is a way of understanding difficult problems, of wrapping our heads around them and quantifying the unknowns.

For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. His hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it that he might learn by experiment what argument taught.

In the matter of physics, the first lessons should contain nothing but what is experimental and interesting to see. A pretty experiment is in itself often more valuable than twenty formulae extracted from our minds.

Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.

Sometimes the best way to learn something is by doing it wrong and looking at what you did.

Crucial to science education is hands-on involvement: showing, not just telling; real experiments and field trips and not just 'virtual reality.'