The onslaught [of computers] has left our emotional lives thin and empty, or, at best, constipated. Our spirits lag behind the superficial miracle of our inven...
For every one pupil who needs to be guarded from a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from the slumber of cold vulgarity. The t...
I’ve always felt the urge to discover what can most help beginners and how they can be made thoroughly acquainted with the technical, intellectual and eth...
One of the biggest needs of the school is not to teach people to do things, but to help them to understand what they are doing. Nothing is easier than to create...
Education in the formal sense is only a part of society’s larger task of abetting the individual’s intellectual, emotional and moral growth. What we...
Music does not truly exist except in performance. But we must guard against praising performance apart from the music. David Whitwell Among our musical friends ...
Literature is not the alphabet. Mathematics is more than symbols. Music transcends its notation. Learn to speak these languages. Foundation for the Advancement ...
The arts must deal with objects and experiences one by one: the painter paints one painting at a time; the musician must play each piece as though he were just ...
For teachers to adopt a blanket policy of accommodation to student wishes and wants is hedonism at its worst. If contemporary pop songs are used as teaching exa...