Wrong education and upbringing produces ugly personalities, whereas a fine upbringing and good education will bring forth superior sense and feeling, as well as nobility and purity of mind.
Interpretation
The quality of education and upbringing directly influences a person's character and mindset.
This quote by Shinichi Suzuki emphasizes the profound impact that both education and upbringing have on an individual's personality. It suggests that while poor education and a lack of nurturing can lead to negative traits, a strong foundation in both aspects can cultivate a person's intelligence, emotional depth, and moral integrity, highlighting the importance of a positive educational environment.
In practice
During a lecture on the importance of educational systems, a teacher might quote this to highlight the role of upbringing.
Musical ability is not an inborn talent but an ability which can be developed. Any child who is properly trained can develop musical ability just as all children develop the ability to speak their mother tongue. The potential of every child is unlimited.
I am mentally preparing myself for the five-year-old mind. I want to come down to their physical limitations and up to their sense of wonder and awe.
Anything you think of doing, however insignificant, should be done immediately. Spur yourself on and carry it through without becoming discouraged. If this becomes an ingrained habit, things you thought were impossible will become possible, and closed doors will open, as you will discover in many ways.
Every child grows; everything depends on the teacher.
A child's slowness in any subject indicates a deficiency in his environment, educational or otherwise.
He continues to teach because it provides him with a livelihood; also because it teaches him humility, brings it home to him who he is in the world. The irony does not escape him: that the one who comes to teach learns the keenest of lessons, while those who come to learn learn nothing.
Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
I do my precalc homework, and then when I'm done I actually sit with the textbook for like three hours and try to understand what I just did. That's the kind of weekend it is--the kind where you have so much time you go past the answers and start looking into the ideas.
My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.
Children, in a way, are constant learners. Certainly sponge-like. Absorbing everything without careful analysis, even though, at the same time, they are certainly capable of incredible insights.
Why is it that we understand playing the cello will require work, but we attribute writing to the magic of inspiration?
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