Learning by Doing Quotes

Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it; men come to be builders, for instance, by building, and harp players by playing the harp. In the same way, by doing just acts we come to be just; by doing self-controlled acts, we come to be self-controlled ; and by doing brave acts, we become brave.

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.

A gram of experience is worth a ton of theory.

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

Anything that we have to learn to do we learn by the actual doing of it; People become builders by building and instrumentalists by playing instruments. Similarily, we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.

Knowing how to swim doesn't come from someone else showing you or someone else telling you or watching movies of other people swimming. It comes from having been in the water, knowing how to move yourself through the water and not sink. And it's true of virtually everything in our lives: knowing comes from direct experience.

In most every business, you learn by doing. The apprenticeship model is much more effective than the classroom for cultivating entrepreneurs.

This is the best film school there is, just to make movies and be there on set.

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 best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and I fished out listings of their operating systems.

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

Knowledge must come through action.

If you want to learn to swim you have to throw yourself in the water.

Life, work - it's all very organic and fluid, a laboratory. I always tell people: whatever your thing is, you just have to be in it. Jump in; you'll figure it out.

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.

Do it. Try it. Fix it.

You can read about it all you want, but there is no substitute for just doing it.

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

I was always waiting for the secret to be handed down to me. Ron Howard asked me what I was waiting for and I went, "Ron, I'm waiting to know the secret. I keep feeling there's some sort of secret that's going to passed on from a director." He went, "Oh no. There is none. You've just got to on and do it and make mistakes and figure it out."

You only learn if you're given a crack at things.

Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

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

Teaching is all armchair. I learn about writing by writing and thinking about what I've written and throwing it away.

I'm from a generation of Iraq and Afghanistan. Our battleground was where we learned. It's not like the old generation where they used to train and train and train, and then suddenly an operation would come up, and they'd go on it.

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.