Learning By Doing

"The things we have to learn before we do them, we learn by doing them". - Aristotle

People usually think that we have to learn things first before we do them. It is true because it is hard to do things without learnig them. How can I play Chess without learning it? However, we should know that we can learn things easily and effectively by doing them. Through playing Chess with friends, I can understand more and learn strategies and basic mathematic. This quote is saying that we should learn by doing and the knowledge we have learned in thay way is real.

"The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet." - Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

People think that learning new things take place in the classroom or by reading books. I have learned new knowledge in the same way. However, as a teacher, with the new knowledge, I cannot satisfy my students’ curiosity or desires for knowing some practical things. One of my friends who likes travelling all around the world is very confident teaching her students because she has a lot of real and alive experience and knowledge of the world which I have not learned from the books or my school teachers. In the classroom, I was one of the smart students; however, I am one of failures when it comes to real and practical knowledge. Students acquire new knowledge from their experience in the world. Learning becomes internalized through self-reflective and interaction with the world. That is what acquisition is.