Klarinet Archive - Posting 000064.txt from 2002/06

From: A4ACHESON@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] Teaching the 'students' of today
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 02:46:54 -0400

In a message dated 3/6/02 5:55:04 pm, LacyS@-----.org writes:

<< But then again, sometimes you just want to spare them the agony of going

through it all and just tell them to find another major because they'll

never make it with this one. But how do you

tell someone something like that? I can't be the one to crush somebody

directly, I'm too nice to do that. >>

There's a lot of fun to be had from playing an instrument 'badly' [by which I
mean less well than one might like!] specially if you can find others to join
you. And I have no objection to a student 'wasting' their time if that is
their choice, but so often this is not the case, their teacher or their
parents or 'the system' governs the choice.
Arthur Acheson

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