Sheldon Harnick Quotes

Education is hanging around until you've caught on.

In business, experience is the big teacher.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Yes, it is a rehearsed show, yes, it was analogy of going to see a play at the theatre, where everything has to be in place and whole things, everything being works, all works together to get the best effect you know it's more like an actor learning a part.

Sometimes people come out of school right now and they immediately want a job doing something. And there's nothing wrong with just listening and learning and watching.

You learn an incredible amount doing theatre, not just about to behave.

Memory and creativity are essential to education, but if you teach memory incorrectly, it is a total waste of time, and it will inhibit learning.

The crucial question one comes back to is the examination; without that experience is meaningless. And I think it's true that society is becoming more and more passive, less and less fired up with enthusiasm, in many spheres.

The play is always fresh to me. It's not the audience's fault that I've said the words before.

The reason I do workshops is so I can learn, and I am fortunate that I've probably gained more from the whole experience of teaching than any one participant has. It is all about asking.

The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need.

I did comedies for 10 years and I learned a great deal.

You can read and read, but nothing eclipses experience.

Education in the past has been too much inspiration and too little information.

I definitely felt by the time I got to grad school - which was a great experience - I was like, 'What's the difference between the teachers and the students? Why are the teachers teachers if they want to be acting?' It didn't make sense to me anymore. It's not like you learn how to set a broken bone and you get the stamp of approval.

There is no question that creative intelligence comes not through learning things you find in books or histories that have already been written, but by focusing on and giving value to experience as it happens.

Drama read to oneself is never drama at its best, and is not even drama as it should be.

I feel like I'm always learning from people.

Themes around education and learning run through my work.

A good place to start initially would be school plays.

Events are the best teacher for us. You try to learn from people, there is always some bend to it.

When you go into the studio or get up on the stage with people who have more experience or knowledge, you learn.

You learn more doing than doing training.

The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.

What, of course, we want in a university is for people to learn the skills they're going to need outside the classroom. So, having a system that had more emphasis on inquiry and exploration but also on learning and practising specific skills would fit much better with how we know people learn.