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.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach it in the public school, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools, and the next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and newspapers. Soon you may set Catholic against Protestant and Protestant against Protestant, and try to foist your own religion upon the minds of men.
What's amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It's so far away in time that they can't appreciate what it means for their whole life.
I am not here to speak against the Taliban. I'm here to speak up for the right of every child.
To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune.
Travel is the best investment you can make in yourself. It teaches you that there are many ways to live a good, fulfilled life. It broadens your world view, yet makes you appreciate home all the more.
Education in the true sense, of course, is an enablement to serve-both the living human community in its natural household or neighborhood and the precious cultural possessions that the living community inherits or should inherit.
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