Learning by Example Quotes

I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.

Men trust their eyes rather than their ears; the road by precept is long and tedious, by example short and effectual.

Long is the road to learning by precepts, but short and successful by examples.

Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is summary and effectual.

Children (nay, and men too) do most by example.

Teaching by precept, without example, is mighty poor teaching.

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.

I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you.

As parents, we should remember that our lives may be the book from the family library which the children most treasure. Are our examples worthy of emulation? Do we live in such a way that a son or a daughter may say, ‘I want to follow my dad,’ or ‘I want to be like my mother’? Unlike the book on the library shelf, the covers of which shield its contents, our lives cannot be closed. Parents, we truly are an open book in the library of learning of our homes.

My daughter is seven, and some of the other second-grade parents complain that their children don't read for pleasure. When I visit their homes, the children's rooms are crammed with expensive books, but the parent's rooms are empty. Those children do not see their parents reading, as I did every day of my childhood. By contrast, when I walk into an apartment with books on the shelves, books on the bedside tables, books on the floor, and books on the toilet tank, then I know what I would see if I opened the door that says 'PRIVATE--GROWNUPS KEEP OUT': a child sprawled on the bed, reading.

It is a trite but true definition that examples work more forcibly on the mind than precepts.

I have met bright students in computer science who have never seen the source code of a large program. They may be good at writing small programs, but they can't begin to learn the different skills of writing large ones if they can't see how others have done it.

I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you. So, the best way to get them to read, is to read. The best way to get them to do anything is to do it yourself, and they will absolutely copy you. That way, you don't have to worry about what's supposedly age appropriate, a child will pick something up when the child is ready.

Kids learn more from example than from anything you say; I'm convinced they learn very early not to hear anything you say, but to watch what you do.

My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.

The attitude you have as a parent is what your kids will learn from more than what you tell them. They don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.

Example is better than following it.

It is better to watch things then to do them.

Whatever you want your child to learn, you have to model that every day. There's no more waiting around. Once you have a child, there's no dress rehearsal anymore.

I think the way kids learn most is not by what you say, but by what you do.

I truly believe children learn by examples much more than what you can teach them verbally.

There are some great teachers who have had great students, but they themselves can't play a note. I don't understand it, because the most I learned from my teacher was just hearing him play.

I've learned that you learn best by modeling. If you want people to learn, do it!

So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.