Frankie Faison Quotes

People planted seeds into me. Older cats gave me the game. My family, especially my mother, gave me the game and I pass it on. That's what it's about. If somebody gives you mental jewelry and you wear it for so long, you want to give it to somebody else for them pass it on.

The information that is passed from person to person and from generation to generation is the primary factor that gives humans a competitive advantage over other animals.

It would be better, in a way, if any adults present were completely uneducated. There is nothing children like more than passing on information they have just discovered to people who may not already have it - an elderly grandmother, for instance.

My grandmother, who taught me how to cook, didn't know how to read.

We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.

It's good to pass on stories.

Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill an emu, acted out in song or dance, or that Uncle George was eaten by a croc over there, don't go there to swim, then those young people don't have to find out by trial and error.

The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.

Writing preserves only the thought of literate peoples.

Storytelling was a way to see the world bigger than the one you were looking at, and that had great appeal for me. I think, since that was part of my upbringing, it became part of me, and I wanted to pass it along to my kids and my grandkids.

I have a responsibility to pass on to the next generation what I learned from my teachers, ... It keeps me young and reminds me where I came from. Teaching young artists is like giving water to a flower.

Music was the medium through which knowledge was passed from generation to generation.

Storytelling is the oldest form of education.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

Education is the transmission of civilization.

Today and always, there will be an obligation to pass on to the new generation the tradition of liberal scholarship - scientific or in the humanities - and to bring the understanding of things and human actions to everyone.

Before we were born, a whole society of storytellers was already here. The storytellers who were here before us taught us how to be human.

I began telling stories as a volunteer in my daughters' school. But I grew up hearing stories from Cuban and Southern storytellers, and I learned a great deal by just being quiet and listening.

A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.

No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, - something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

The fact is that the learning process goes on, and so long as the voices are not stilled and the singers go on singing some of it gets through.

Remember the days of old, Think of the generations of long ago; Ask your father to recount it And your elders to tell the tale.

What he learns from the government he writes on his tongue and we learn from him.

Elders are the books of the young.

Universities are meant to pass the torch of civilization.