“The legacies that parents and church and teachers left to my generation of Black children were priceless but not material: a living faith reflected in daily service, the discipline of hard work and stick-to-itiveness, and a capacity to struggle in the face of adversity.” ChildrenHardFacesLeftParentBlackCommunityChurchStruggleTeacherGenerationsIdentityMaterialsHard WorkDisciplineCapacityAdversitySticksLegacyPricelessMy GenerationFacing AdversityCultural Identity Author:Marian Wright Edelman
“By preventing a free market in education, a handful of social engineers - backed by the industries that profit from compulsory schooling: teacher colleges, textbook publishers, materials suppliers, et al. - have ensured that most of our children will not have an education, even though they may be thoroughly schooled.” MayChildrenSocialTeacherCollegeMaterialsIndustryOur ChildrenProfitAlsEngineersPublishersFree MarketHandfulSchoolingPreventingTextbooksSchooledCompulsorySuppliersCompulsory Education Author:John Taylor
“If the attitude of the teacher toward the material is positive, enthusiastic, committed and excited, the students get that. If the teacher is bored, students get that and they get bored, quickly, instinctively.” IfsAttitudeTeacherStudentsMaterialsCommittedExcitedBoredEnthusiastic Author:David McCullough
“As a teacher with over thirty years of experience, I've found that students are hungry for material that goes beyond simply learning tune after tune. In fact, my students suggested a good portion of the material presented here. This lesson should be an indispensable aid to the aspiring bluegrass banjoist.” ShouldYearsFactsFoundTeacherStudentsMaterialsLessonsAidsHungryThirtyTunesPortionsIndispensableThirty YearsBluegrassYears Of Experience Author:Tony Trischka
“Even when I was an actor in training, one criticism my teachers had was that I should think about directing instead of acting because the best actors see the material they’re working on through blinders. They can’t see anything but their role. I could never really do that.” ThinkingShouldActorsActingRolesTeacherMaterialsTrainingCriticismBlinders Author:Jason Alexander