Klarinet Archive - Posting 000341.txt from 1995/06

From: Jay Heiser <jay@-----.COM>
Subj: Re: A meeting of minds
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 1995 10:59:35 -0400

This is a lot like "More taste/More filling" isn't it? :-)

Isn't the question as much "How do we teach?" as "How do we learn?"

My current guitar teacher is the best music teacher I've ever had in that he
analyzes
what I am doing wrong and can both explain and demonstrate proper technique. He
really understands how people learn to play his instrument and the typical
stages in
development. One advantage of the guitar is that you can see everything.
There's
no mouth or chest cavity to deal with.

I've had lots of teachers and I don't think its a cop out to say that (at least
for me) the
best teacher combines both.

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From: Neil Leupold
Sent: Friday, June 16, 1995 04:42
To: Multiple recipients of list KLARINET
Subject: A meeting of minds

ntouch Memo 06/15/95
Subject:A meeting of minds 11:32 PM
We have now read statements by both Dan Leeson & Clark Fobes, in response to
postings by Nichelle Crocker and myself on the subject of effective spoken
communication as a component of clarinet pedagogy (I'll be giving a lecture on
alliteration later if you like). Dan leans heavily (no pun intended) toward
the precision of well-defined concepts and ideas, whereas Clark makes an
argument more strongly in favor of subordinating such exactness and
accurate-mindedness to an individual's seemingly nebulous ability to assimilate
concepts intuitively. After digesting Dan's and Clark's cogent cogitations (oh
man, I'm stuck!), the real issue seems to be one of (here's that word again)
epistemology. It's the study of knowledge. Loosely stated: How do we learn?