Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.
We have to learn to make our own way through a complex world without the benefit of an accepted trustworthy route map.
The trainer trains the docile horse to turn, with his sensitive neck, whichever way the rider indicates.
You don't have to be Michelangelo to teach basic art, just as you don't have to be Shakespeare to be able to teach the correct use of language.
I would rather teach drawing that my pupils may learn to love nature, than teach the looking at nature that they may learn to draw.
My objective in teaching my pupils is that they should be fitted for any kind of art.
If we taught music the way we try to teach engineering, in an unbroken four year course, we could end up with all theory and no music. When we study music, we start to practice from the beginning, and we practice for the entire time.
I have never really done any teaching and maybe I should have done. I am not power-mad enough.
If I can get them to think, get them to feel, get them to see, then I've done about all that I can as a teacher.
The most fruitful and worthwhile thing I have ever done has been to teach.
Self-taught are those without formal education. Most self-taught artists have missing ingredients to their work.
Teaching art is a shared experience. Our ability to share our own personal vision and interact with others through art can become realized.
I'm bilingual. I speak English and I speak educationese.
To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.
Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.
The children are now working as if I did not exist.
If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere
You don't have to be a 'person of influence' to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me.
A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.
If you cannot explain it simply, you do not understand it enough.
All human beings are born with unique gifts. The healthy functioning community depends on realizing the capacity to develop each gift.
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
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