Many teachers think of children as immature adults. It might lead to better and more 'respectful' teaching, if … - Keith Johnstone

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I went down to Houston and I stopped in San 'Antone, I passed up the station for the bus. I was trying to find me something, but I wasn't sure just what. . . man, I ended up with pockets full of dust.

Keith Johnstone

Many teachers think of children as immature adults. It might lead to better and more 'respectful' teaching, if we thought of adults as atrophied children. Many 'well-adjusted' adults are bitter, uncreative, frightened, unimaginative, and rather hostile people. Instead of assuming they were born that way, or that that's what being an adult entails, we might consider them as people damaged by their education and upbringing.

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As I grew up, everything started getting grey and dull. I could still remember the amazing intensity of the world I'd lived in as a child, but I thought the dulling of perception was an inevitable consequence of age - just as a lens of the eye is bound gradually to dim. I didn't understand that clarity is in the mind.

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The problem's always been to deal with the fear. Cos the fear is pretty. . . it ruins everybody really.

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If it weren't for fear, I wouldn't have to teach you a damn thing

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The improvisation had to be in public, because you only get value playing to strangers.

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Every theatre worth anything has somebody in the middle of it who is driving it; like Joan Littlewood with her theatre.

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