“… Having had long experience with my own schools, I have felt, more and more strongly, the importance of giving every child a background of example and activity which might stimulate its own longings and potential.
In the autumn of 1994 I launched a project known as MUS-E: Music-in-Europe. However, it is much more than that name implies.
… I mean especially those schools where problems of racial intolerance and other prejudices hold sway, at the expense of the normal development of the child’s emotions, intellect and energy. …
… The situation varies from country to country but each has schools, usually in the most deprived neighbourhoods, which suffer from the prejudices adults inflict on their children. … “… Particularly for older students, the inclusion of gymnastic disciplines such as yoga and Thai-chi, together with various forms of martial arts and fencing, is found to bring great benefits as well.
By example, we can guide the children to constructive and useful ends. One of our basic principles is that we do not teach from a book which can, in such circumstances only be a barrier between teacher and student. We teach by example and from memory. …” Yehudi Menuhin – Unfinished Journey, Autobiography
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