learn by doing, not being taught

Came across a very interesting video just now. It is about how a lady taught her child by learning how to do, instead through verbal teaching.

It is true that in this generation era, we are being taught how things work, and how things should be done. But to truly understand the teaching, not sure how many of us do. And without these teaching, not sure how many of us would think of exploring the outside world in order to learn it up.
Unlike the previous era where things are limited, and in order to get something or to do something new, people tend to crack their heads and make full use of their imagination.
And maybe because the older era feel that they need to pass down the information learnt, so, they start to "teach" on what they know.
Maybe it is just the way of "teaching" that went wrong, that most of the new generation got used to "spoon-feeding" teaching. We think that we are letting information being passed down, but forget the ultimate reason what these information need to pass down.Letting the newer generation to learn is correct. But we forget to emphasize on the need to do the things they have learnt.

I think it is kinda similar to an old proverb - give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish, and you feed him for  a lifetime.
So a person need to "fish" in order to get the fish.