Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
The future of our nation depends on providing our children with a complete education that includes music.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Music is about communication, creativity, and cooperation, and by studying music in schools, students have the opportunity to build on these skills, enrich their lives, and experience the world from a new perspective.
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.
The future belongs to young people with an education and the imagination to create.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
Art is a nation's most precious heritage. For it is in our works of art that we reveal to ourselves and to others the inner vision which guides us as a nation. And where there is no vision, the people perish.
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
The strength of every democracy is measured by its commitment to the arts.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
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