Yehudi Menuhin: Quotes about learning

Yehudi Menuhin was American violinist and conductor. Explore interesting quotes on learning.
Yehudi Menuhin: 82 quotes1 like

“We embark unhesitatingly on the path, in a direction that is absolutely right and urgent, supported by everyone, in the knowledge that this path is but a learning process… We have to keep on learning, creating, applying, by-passing, touching upon, refining and clarifying a number of notions and details that need to be improvised and applied and which, thank God, we cannot foresee. The only rigidity lies in our will, our conviction that we are on the right road and that our initiatives are most pressing.”

Yehudi Menuhin

Source: Jacob Bergen The Mandate http://books.google.co.in/books?id=1N6xXTCGzIMC&pg=PA33, Xulon Press, 1 June 2006, p. 33

“What guides us is children's response, their joy in learning to dance, to sing, to live together. It should be a guide to the whole world.”

Yehudi Menuhin

Source: Tessa Souter Anything I Can Do... You Can Do Better: How to unlock your creative dreams and change your life http://books.google.co.in/books?id=GJzWPzwI79kC&pg=PA156, Random House, 31 July 2011, p. 156

“Many people do not realise that it takes considerably more art and skill to play the violin lightly than it does to play it loudly. Indeed, the best possible training for young violinists is learning to play pianissimo and without pressure.”

Yehudi Menuhin

Source: Life class: thoughts, exercises, reflections of an itinerant violinist, p. 68

“The teacher offers guidance here and there, but the primary factor, the driving force, in your relationship and work together is the student's own commitment and desire to learn. Teaching is like sailing: The wind and the sails give the boat its motion. Your role (as a teacher) is to steer and guide.”

Yehudi Menuhin

Violinist Yehudi Menuhin

“Learning an imposed method seemed not in my nature”

Yehudi Menuhin

Quote from his autobiography,Unfinished Journey”
Violinist Yehudi Menuhin

“The idea that a pupil is a passive recipient, a container waiting to be filled by the teacher's knowledge and instruction - all this is nonsense. Teaching is a living relationship, of give and take, of mutual learning.”

Yehudi Menuhin

Violinist Yehudi Menuhin

“The best teacher is the one who himself has had to struggle to learn.”

Yehudi Menuhin

Violinist Yehudi Menuhin