Klarinet Archive - Posting 000790.txt from 2001/11

From: Jon Usher <ewijon@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Giving up. or not
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 10:59:52 -0500

Or careful not to teach them that's it's OK to quit when something isn't
instantly successful....
-Jon

At 12:26 PM 11/29/01 +0000, you wrote:
> > In order to acquire the skills necessary to create, throughout one's
> > adult life, goals that one will be happy to work towards, it is
> > essential to have had repeated experiences of doing that successfully
> > as a child, and quite poisonous to have had the experience of
> > chronically failing to.
> >
> > David Deutsch
>
>So, if you think this is true, and I suggest that it is, you have to be
>careful about getting kids to go on doing something they don't want to
>do.
>
>Tony

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Jon Usher
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Clarinet Instructor
Cal State San Bernardino
San Bernardino, CA

"The man who hath no music in his soul is not a man to be trusted."
-Willy Shakespeare-

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