Real World Application 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.

A gram of experience is worth a ton of theory.

On Pragmatism: It's all very well in theory but it doesn't work in practice

What passes for a curriculum in today's schools is little else than a strategy of distraction... It is largely defined to keep students from knowing themselves and their environment in any realistic sense; which is to say, it does not allow inquiry into most of the critical problems that comprise the content of the world outside the school.

I don't care what anything was designed to do, I care about what it can do.

If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you.

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

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

[The error in the teaching of mathematics is that] mathematics is expected either to be immediately attractive to students on its own merits or to be accepted by students solely on the basis of the teacher's assurance that it will be helpful in later life. [And yet,] mathematlcs is the key to understanding and mastering our physical, social and biological worlds.

How empty is theory in the presence of fact!

What it takes to do a job will not be learned from management courses. It is principally a matter of experience, the proper attitude, and common sense — none of which can be taught in a classroom... Human experience shows that people, not organizations or management systems, get things done.

I need more raw experience. I've read and watched a lot of things, but I haven't done a lot of things.

The best preparation for work is not thinking about work, talking about work or studying for work. It is work.

Theory looks well on paper, but does not amount to anything without practice.

As formal teaching and training grow in extent, there is the danger of creating an undesirable split between the experience gained in more direct associations and what is acquired in school. This danger was never greater than at the present time, on account of the rapid growth in the last few centuries of knowledge and technical modes of skill.

He that in the ordinary affairs of life would admit of nothing but direct plain demonstration would be sure of nothing in this world but of perishing quickly.

An ounce of practice is generally worth more than a ton of theory.

Theories and grand ideas are important, but they seldom unfold as planned.

The primary goal of management education was, as originally conceived, to impart knowledge that could be applied to a variety of real-world business situations.

I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain.

You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.

"There is one basis of science," says Descartes, "one test and rule of truth, namely, that whatever is clearly and distinctly conceived is true." A profound psychological mistake. It is true only of formal logic, wherein the mind never quits the sphere of its first assumptions to pass out into the sphere of real existences; no sooner does the mind pass from the internal order to the external order, than the necessity of verifying the strict correspondence between the two becomes absolute. The Ideal Test must be supplemented by the Real Test, to suit the new conditions of the problem.

For not all things are practicable on identical principles

Film students should stay as far away from film schools and film teachers as possible. The only school for the cinema is the cinema.

The discipline of economics has yet to get over its childish passion for mathematics and for purely theoretical and often highly ideological speculation, at the expense of historical research and collaboration with the other social sciences.