“He never reckoned much to schooling and that. He said you could learn most what was worth knowing from keeping your eyes and ears peeled. Best way of learning, he always said, was doing.”
― Farm Boy
― Farm Boy
“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.”
― The Nicomachean Ethics
― The Nicomachean Ethics
“You don't see the world as it is, you see it,as you are.”
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“I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more."
(Letter to John Banister, Jr., June 19, 1787)”
― The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Vol 11, January 1787 to August 1787
(Letter to John Banister, Jr., June 19, 1787)”
― The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Vol 11, January 1787 to August 1787
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