Experiential Learning

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

The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
- Lord Philip 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 C. Huie



Quotes taken from www.wilerdom.com. This site gives a very nice academic overview of experiential learning (including sail training). Worth a visit


Also came across the name Tony Saddington: an ex-UCT lecturer specialising in experiential learning. Again worth a visit.