“I HEAR AND I FORGET
I SEE AND I REMEMBER
I DO AND I UNDERSTAND”
-Confucius
“The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.”
-Lord Phillip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
“Experiential education is elusive, often paradoxical, a multifaceted jewel with ethical, aesthetic, spiritual, physical social and psychological dimensions, even cosmic dimensions. Psychological mountain climbing may be the right phrase for what we mean by experiential education.”
-John Huie
It is little short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not completely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.”
– Albert Einstein
“What we do, if we are successful, is to stir interest in the matter at hand, awaken enthusiasm for it, arouse a curiosity, kindle a feeling, fire up the imagination–and now she who is exposed in this fashion goes on her own way, I owe a great and lasting debt.”
– Professor Julius Sumner Miller
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
– G. M. Trevelyan