We acquire much of the knowledge though our experience. This is what I feel is important as a teacher, to allow students to learn through personal experimentation, our own senses, and a host of other ways. The student will have the opportunity to learn more by experience rather than only by reading the material. Reading the material has a much different effect than actually seeing the material or role-playing. It is important to me as a teacher to use different methods of learning to best fit students' needs.
Life is nothing more than solving problems.
This is why I feel students best learn by doing. Students learn more about principles by experience. I also feel students will become more curious and better problem solvers if this method is used. They need to have an understanding of how things work, not just what things are. I can best be described as a progressive educator.