"To put it simply, we need to keep the arts in education because they instill in students the habits of mind that last a lifetime: critical analysis skills, the ability to deal with ambiguity and to solve problems, perseverance and a drive for excellence. Moreover, the creative skills children develop through the arts carry them toward new ideas, new experiences, and new challenges, not to mention personal satisfaction. This is the intrinsic value of the arts, and it cannot be overestimated."

-- Rod Paige

#Perseverance Quotes #Art Quotes #Children Quotes

“The northern people are riders and the southern people sailors; it is said quite true.”
“The happiness of love is in action; its test is what one is willing to do for others.”

Source : Lew Wallace (2016). “Ben-Hur [Illustrated]”, p.23, XinXii
“All my life I've wanted to be the kid who gets to cross over into the magical kingdom.”
“I had sat in one day in Central Park with Bonnie and Delaney, and Duane was playing with them, so I asked if he wanted to work on an album. You never had to say to him how to play the guitar.”
“I'm a little young for retirement.”
“He who does the most good is the greatest man. Power, authority, dignity, honors, wealth and station--these are so far valuable as they put it into the hands of men to be more exemplary and more useful than they could be in an obscure and private life. But then these are means conducting to an end, and that end is goodness.”
“People are experience-rich and theory-poor.”

Source : "The man who can't stop thinking" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 2008.
“What words are in you that can change the world?”

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