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Albert Cullum’s lessons inspired generations of children. In Cullum’s classroom, elementary school students passionately recited soliloquies from Shakespeare's Richard III and "swam" down the chalk borders of the Mississippi River marked on the playground pavement, learning the values of imagination, self-confidence, originality and joy.
View video clips from A TOUCH OF GREATNESS and find out more about Albert Cullum’s lessons below.
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The joy of learning
“We must remember how children learn rather than how we teach. Through movement, through emotions, through activities, through projects—all the basics fit in. And they’re learning without realizing they’re learning.”
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Working together
“We lived together, we threw up together, we had vocabulary races together. We were a team that was proud of 5A or 6D or whatever homeroom we were. . . you can’t lose when there’s pride. Pride is everything.”
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Children and imaginative play
“If I’m not having fun, no one in the room is having fun… I realized there should be more play during the day—and by that I mean more learning that is playful.”
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Teaching children the classics
“My approach to introducing [the classics] to them is telling the story…. And they weren’t tested. No one was ever tested how much they remembered about a play. Drilling extra hard is not going to help them remember it. Helping them get emotionally involved is going to help them pass this—any test any state gives. You don’t forget it. You have to have faith that the children are going to internalize. ”
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