Paul Harris > Quotes

“It was hardly a boom-town, but it was a faltering step in the right direction.”
― Paul Harris, The Secret Keeper

“I don't want to change the world," she kept saying. "I just want to change one corner of it. If I reach a few of the kids I look after, just a few, that will be enough for me.”
― Paul Harris, The Secret Keeper

“The world was full of righteous things that remained undone.”
― Paul Harris, The Secret Keeper

“The raison d'être for teaching and learning music is to create a lifelong love for it and an ability to engage with it independently.”
― Paul Harris, The Virtuoso Teacher

“Virtuoso Teachers teach as the virtuoso player plays: with a heightened sense of awareness, with passion and energy, with profound involvement and genuine commitment. Virtuoso”
― Paul Harris, The Virtuoso Teacher

“Anything said before "but" is probably forgotten - only the critical stuff is remembered.”
― Paul Harris, The Virtuoso Teacher

“Teaching music is to develop a deeper understanding. It's teaching each pupil, in his or her own individual way, to know music and to engage with all of its component parts with real awareness and insight.”
― Paul Harris, The Virtuoso Teacher

“Outcomes are indisputably necessary, but we must try to make the process the more significant of the two.”
― Paul Harris, The Virtuoso Teacher

“Teaching is, indisputably, a wonderful, fulfilling, endlessly stimulating and hugely responsible occupation.”
― Paul Harris, The Virtuoso Teacher

“You can plan the teaching but you can't predict the learning, so the teaching plan (and the teacher) must always be flexible enough to go with the flow.”
― Paul Harris, The Virtuoso Teacher

“teaching is sharing that knowledge, expertise and experience.”
― Paul Harris, The Virtuoso Teacher

“One of the reasons teachers attach negative labels is that it removes them from taking responsability.”
― Paul Harris, The Virtuoso Teacher

“We must never lose that desire for learning that identifies someone who has a real passion for life. We continually need to be exploring, experimenting and refining what we do and what we think. It’s living in a state of constant renewal”
― Paul Harris, The Virtuoso Teacher

“Jesus dwells in our hearts in perfect simplicity.”
― Paul Harris, Silence and Stillness in Every Season: Daily Readings with John Main

“For Benedict, the first quality we all require if we would respond to Christ and be open to His life in our hearts is the capacity to listen.”
― Paul Harris, Silence and Stillness in Every Season: Daily Readings with John Main

“Those who can, do; those who can do better than those who just do, teach.”
― Paul Harris, The Virtuoso Teacher

“Never let pupils be satisfied with mediocrity.”
― Paul Harris, The Virtuoso Teacher

“It may be a bitter pill to swallow, but the majority of mistakes made by pupils are the result of the teaching.”
― Paul Harris, The Virtuoso Teacher

“Virtuoso Teachers have one main concern - are we doing the best for our pupils?”
― Paul Harris, The Virtuoso Teacher

“If pupils are involved in making the decision they are more likely to go along with it.”
― Paul Harris, The Virtuoso Teacher

“So we mus simply accept (without condition) that all our pupils are good pupils. There are no bad pupils.”
― Paul Harris, The Virtuoso Teacher

“Any kind of negative comparisons are best avoided when teaching.”
― Paul Harris, The Virtuoso Teacher

“We need to be aware of the consequences of our teaching and continually reflect on and refine what we do.”
― Paul Harris, The Virtuoso Teacher

“If we have a "best" pupil we inevitably will have a "worst" pupil. Let's just have pupils.”
― Paul Harris, The Virtuoso Teacher

“Great players don't always make great teachers.”
― Paul Harris, The Virtuoso Teacher

“If pupils are asked to repeat a passage (or a scale or exercise) they need to know why and what additionally is expected of them.”
― Paul Harris, The Virtuoso Teacher

“We should exude humanity and integrity. Virtuoso Teachers are humble people.”
― Paul Harris, The Virtuoso Teacher

“The seeds of unfulfilled careers can sometimes be sown in mean-spirited teaching.”
― Paul Harris, The Virtuoso Teacher

“Nowadays more than ever we need to see teaching as a personalized initiative with each pupil.”
― Paul Harris, The Virtuoso Teacher

“Slow moving pupils are not bad pupils - they are just slow moving.”
― Paul Harris, The Virtuoso Teacher