The secret of good teaching is to regard the child's intelligence as a fertile field in which seeds may be sown, to grow under the heat of flaming imagination.
What do I consider a teacher should be? One who breathes life into knowledge so that it takes new form in progress and civilization.
The mission of a great school is not to cram you with facts so that you can regurgitate them...This gives many boys such a distaste for learning that they never read another book as long as they live. No, the mission is to inspire you with a taste for scholarship - a taste which will last you all your life.
For me, education means to inspire people to live more abundantly, to learn to begin with life as they find it and make it better.
Think about being a teenager and feeling like school is just about taking tests you may or may not be interested in, after which someone will judge whether or not you're smart. No one's going to be inspired by that.
College inspired me to think differently. It's like no other time in your life.
Arts in education is especially important to me. Inspired teachers in our education system is crucial in developing inspired human beings.
I will point ye out the right path of a virtuous and noble Education; laborious indeed at first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect, and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming.
