Education

Art is an irreplaceable way of understanding and expressing the world, equal to but distinct from scientific and conceptual methods.

The real purpose of arts education is to create complete human beings capable of leading successful and productive lives in a free society.

A lot of people have worked awfully hard to help give you the education of a lifetime. Now it's up to you to decide what to do with it.

I had to take off the teacher mask, which so many of us put on at the beginning; the mask that says: 'Well, I'm the teacher and I know it all. You sit there and I'll tell you.'

About ninety percent of love is just paying attention.

Graduate now. We are pushing you out of the tub, out of the nest, out into the world, a world which we think that you will find is at least your older brother and a place where you belong.

If you believe in yourself, others will too. And if you have confidence in who you are, there is no end to what you can accomplish.

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.

Learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience.

Critical thinking is the key to our past, our present, and our future.

We are too experienced and too well educated to lead our lives as puppets. We cannot afford to listen silently then nod our heads and move on.

We dare not squander our education. We dare not squander our integrity. We must be brave to think critically. We must be free to believe in ourselves.