Keith Johnstone Quotes About Children

• 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.

  →

  Keith Johnstone

  1958

• 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.

  →

  Keith Johnstone

  Keith Johnstone (1981). “Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre”, p.78, Routledge

  901

• Some people in this life think they're worth something, or that they have a right to things. I never thought I had a right to anything 'cause of the way I was broken as a child. And therefore I was sort of floating around and would get sucked into things.

  →

  Keith Johnstone

  Source: actorsandperformers.com

  1785

• 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.

  →

  Keith Johnstone

  Keith Johnstone (1981). “Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre”, p.13, Routledge

  1818

You May Also Like:

Paulo Freire

Viola Spolin

Michael Chekhov

Augusto Boal

Jacques Lecoq

Antonin Artaud

Jerzy Grotowski

Stephen Nachmanovitch