Art Quote by Stephen Neill

“As a result of his experiments he concluded that imitation was a real evil that had to be broken before real rhetoric teaching could…

— Robert M. Pirsig

Schools teach you to imitate. If you don't imitate what the teacher wants you get a bad grade. Here, in college, it was more…

— Robert M. Pirsig

Bad teaching is teaching which presents an endless procession of meaningless signs, words and rules, and fails to arouse the imagination.

— W. W. Sawyer

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“And what impels him to repeat this process at every single lesson, and, with the same remorseless insistence, to make his pupils copy it…

— Eugen Herrigel

Bad teaching wastes a great deal of effort, and spoils many lives which might have been full of energy and happiness.

— Gilbert Highet

Good teaching cannot be reduced to technique; good teaching comes from the identity and integrity of the teacher.

— Parker J. Palmer

There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher.…

— Berenice Abbott

“But what cannot be taught, fortunately or unfortunately, is the creative, expressive side of art. Most good teachers of drawing, painting, ect., can teach…

— Edward Chase

Our teachers were absolute tyrants. They had no sympathy with youth; their one object was to stuff our brains and turn us into erudite…

— Adolf Hitler

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

— Jacques Barzun

After some time passed in studying - and even imitating - the works of others, I would recommend the student to endeavour to be…

— Henry Peach Robinson