[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Learning was the central foundation of Bernstein’s life.\u00a0 The following are his thoughts regarding education…<\/p>\n
Speaking about Mahler, this quote basically unintentionally sums up Socrates’ speech in the Symposium<\/em> about immortality and education\u2026<\/p>\n \u201c..as each of us grows up, the mark of our maturity is that we accept our mortality; and yet we persist in our search for immortality. We may believe it\u2019s all transient, even that it\u2019s all over; yet we believe a future. We believe.<\/em> We emerge from a cinema after three hours of the most abject degeneracy in a film such as La Dolce Vita<\/em>, and we emerge on wings, from the sheer creativity of it; we can fly on, to a future. And the same is true after witnessing the hopelessness of Godot<\/em> in the theater, or after the aggressive violence of The Rite of Spring<\/em> in the concert hall. Or even after listening to the bittersweet young cynicism of an album called \u201cRevolver,\u201d we have wings to fly on. We have to believe in that kind of creativity. I know I do\u2026.There must be something in us, and in me, that makes me want to continue; and to teach is to believe in continuing.\u201d\u00a0 (The Unanswered Question pg. 317)<\/p>\n \u201cWhen I teach I ask a lot of questions of my students and I like very much to learn from them.\u201d (The Infinite Variety of Music pg. 266)<\/p>\n \u201cI think that perhaps the greatest gift my father bestowed on us children was to teach us to love learning.\u201d (Findings pg. 174)<\/p>\n Testimony before the house subcommittee on a bill calling for a White House conference on the Arts: \u201cI believe that this urgent need to take hold of and develop the innate curiosity and immense learning capacity which all children share must take precedence over all other considerations.\u201d (Findings pg. 331)<\/p>\n \u201cI propose that the reading and understanding of music be taught to our children from the very beginning of their school life; that they learn to participate with enthusiasm in the study of music from kindergarten through high school. No child is tone-deaf; every child has the natural ability and desire to assimilate musical ideas and comprehend their combinations into musical forms. Every child can be taught to read music as he or she is taught to read words; and there is no reason why both kinds of reading cannot be taught simultaneously.\u201d (Findings pg. 334)<\/p>\n In a letter to his mentor Serge Koussevitsky, \u201cNo matter how much times elapses without seeing you, you are always with me, guiding my work, providing the standards by which I measure my progress in our art.\u201d (Leonard Bernstein Letters, pg. 127)[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n Leonard Bernstein devoted an entire Young People’s Concert to “A Tribute to Teachers”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n Leonard Bernstein documentary Teachers and Teaching<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_video link=” https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=i2wkpuSBED4″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_video link=”https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-cjEHWjOBEg”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Learning was the central foundation of Bernstein’s life.\u00a0 The following are his thoughts regarding education… Speaking about Mahler, this quote<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":31,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sharonroffman.com\/bernsteinserenade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sharonroffman.com\/bernsteinserenade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sharonroffman.com\/bernsteinserenade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sharonroffman.com\/bernsteinserenade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sharonroffman.com\/bernsteinserenade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/sharonroffman.com\/bernsteinserenade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205,"href":"http:\/\/sharonroffman.com\/bernsteinserenade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33\/revisions\/205"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sharonroffman.com\/bernsteinserenade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sharonroffman.com\/bernsteinserenade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}