Life Celebration Quotes
A. Bartlett Giamatti
Teachers believe they have a gift for giving. It drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
Albert Einstein
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power.
Alfred Adler
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Anatole France
Aristotle
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
The arts are not a frill. The arts are a response to our individuality and our nature, and help to shape our identity. What is there that can transcend deep difference and stubborn divisions? The arts. They have a wonderful universality. Art has the potential to unify. It can speak in many languages without a translator. The arts do not discriminate. The arts lift us up.
Barbara Jordan
Camille Paglia
In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.
Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools I am hyper-aware of the often grotesque disconnect between commentary on the arts and the actual practice or production of the arts.
The purpose of arts education is not to produce more artists, though that is a byproduct. The real purpose of arts education is to create complete human beings capable of leading successful and productive lives in a free society.
Dana Gioia
It's such a diversion to be constantly thinking of better ways I can teach people math that my hunger is for that really, for new ways of translating the beauty of it.
Danica McKellar
The key to education is the experience of beauty.
Friedrich Schiller
An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently.
Gavin Newsom
Music education opens doors that help children pass from school into the world around them - a world of work, culture, intellectual activity, and human involvement. The future of our nation depends on providing our children with a complete education that includes music.
Gerald R. Ford
Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.
Harvey Fierstein
Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.
Henry Miller
One can compare art education to the solid foundation for a house - once it's built properly, it will hold any shape or form you will place on it.
Igor Babailov
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
Mark Van Doren
Whoever has skill in music is of good temperament and fitted for all things. We must teach music in schools.
Martin Luther
I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Pablo Picasso
It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
Plato
Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education.
It has been proven time and time again in countless studies that students who actively participate in arts education are twice as likely to read for pleasure, have strengthened problem-solving and critical thinking skills, are four times more likely to be recognized for academic achievement, four times more likely to participate in a math and science fair.
Quincy Jones
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
William Butler Yeats
