"So many schools have cut the music classes out of their curriculum. We're trying to fill that gap by teaching the teachers how to educate the kids about their musical heritage"

"Music is my religion"

"Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other"

"Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college"

"A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching"

"Learning and teaching should not stand on opposite banks and just watch the river flow by; instead, they should embark together on a journey down the water. Through an active, reciprocal exchange, teaching can strengthen learning how to learn"

"Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre"

"Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher"

"He who opens a school door, closes a prison"

"The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next"

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away"