Klarinet Archive - Posting 000091.txt from 2000/05

From: "Patricia Smith" <pattiesmith@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] How much it's up to you....
Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 06:15:26 -0400

Tony, what I think, IMHO, that a lot of us are trying to say is that you
have command of the verbal and written language such that how you say things
helps us to often sift out things we already know in such a way that it
often becomes clearer in our own mind. That is the effect most of your
posts have on me. I will sit back and consider, say, your extensive
writings on breathing, for example. Now, I have knowledge in that area, and
I am quite self assured - I am not necessarily looking for "the higher
authority to validate my thoughts", so to speak. But you will say something
about a concept that will not only make that concept so much clearer to me,
but it will also help me to convey that concept to my students in a more
effective way, thus making me a better teacher. If my students don't
understand me, they don't learn. I tend to learn a lot on the physical
level, and when you describe the physical process of breathing in the detail
you do, then I can compare what I am actually doing to what you are saying
and it helps me codify my physical experience into something tangible I can
use and pass on.

Thanks for your unique contributions to us all. And I apologize in advance
for murdering the English language.

Patty Smith

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