The most important thing I look for in a musician is whether he knows
how to listen.
- Duke Ellington
you can play a shoestring if
you're sincere. - John Coltrane
you're sincere. - John Coltrane
The goal of education is not to increase the
amount of knowledge, but to create the
possibilities for a child to invent and
discover, to create people who are
capable of doing new things.
- Jean Piaget
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
- Yeats
The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
- Michelangelo
- Yeats
The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
- Michelangelo
The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
_ James Baldwin
am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
- Ralph Ellison
Education must not simply teach work - it must teach Life. - W. E. B. Du Bois
_ James Baldwin
am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
- Ralph Ellison
Education must not simply teach work - it must teach Life. - W. E. B. Du Bois
"You can't talk about education without talking about the whole society . . . you can't talk about schools without talking about cities.."
- James Baldwin
- James Baldwin