Klarinet Archive - Posting 000059.txt from 2001/06

From: "Tony Wakefield" <tony-wakefield@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] The guru and the internet
Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 07:09:24 -0400

> Neither do I, Ciprian. I believe that the best way is to present an
> analysis of the situation, rather than a #[[dogmatic instruction]]# of
what to
> do.

Tony
I don`t think many of us are quite so dogmatic as what you may be implying.
There are quite a few teachers within klarinet who exchange views with you
regularly. There are I believe very, very few gurus in this bunch of
teacher/contributors. We all have our own philosophies on teaching methods
etc, so just because we are on the net, and not in our own teaching studios,
why then should we be offering <dogmatic/guruistic statements> which are
against what our beliefs and methods are in our studio? There`s no logic
there Tony. I`d say it was dogmatic to have someone observe/accuse that of
us.

Now I may agree with you on certain posts which come from non teachers. Some
folk can only utter dogmatism every time they open their mouths. These kind
of folk tend not to enter into teaching , - not any more anyway.

In 2 1/2 years I have only seen personal reflections on what our list of
teachers themselves enter into in their posts, where aspects of teaching
require that analytical experimentation for the pupil is to be the way
forward. Not "DO IT THIS WAY OR YOU`RE OUT". I have not viewed any posts
(from teachers) who use this way of teaching; one that seems to incorporate
dogmatism, or the "profess to know it all" affliction. One of your very
recent (today?) posts reveals that you may in fact "lay the law down " in
some of your own teaching.

My point is, is that I feel your post re "gurus" to be not justified. It
even seems a little vague. You seem to be looking for something that is not
there. Your view of <us> in turn, is only from an internet point of view.
You don`t know us, and you don`t know how much <we> are continually
adjusting to facilitate the progress of our own students. I feel you are
attacking for the sake of something to say.

Can you honestly say that what we perceive <your> posts to be, that that is
the way <you> teach in your studio, and that perception must surely be for a
lot of us, dogmatism, -nay, "guruism"?. Or do you temper and adjust, and
analyse (which of course, [unlike some of your posts] we don`t see).

Best,

Tony W.

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