The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes—ah, that is where the art resides! Artur Schnabel [Chicago Daily News...
Our nation really suffers from a cultural problem more than a scientific one. Whether we’re behind the Japanese people is secondary. Our culture is dyin...
Music whispers to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto. Emerson [National Commission on Music Education, 1...
Music is an orphan and it will always be an orphan until we get a grip on the music education of the young. Leonard Bernstein [National Commission on Music Edu...
What schools must do is provide students with the means to discover what is within them and help them develop it, not just for the sake of their own self-satisf...
We rely heavily on logic and cognitive processes and, indeed, that is half of our condition as human beings. But the other, subtler half—the intuitive, cr...
The US government spends only .095 percent of what it spends on the support for science. It spends nearly 29 times more on science education than it spends on a...