Klarinet Archive - Posting 001214.txt from 2004/03

From: "rien stein" <rstein@-----.nl>
Subj: [kl] "all men are born as equals"
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 05:21:33 -0500

Bill Hausmann wrote

<<
I will concede that there may be SOME benefits for the lower-IQ
student. However, the brighter student WILL NOT learn at the same
pace,
since the material will be presented at a slower rate to accommodate
the
slower child. Why do we continually trying to cram all students into
the
same classroom, expecting the teacher to cope with the clearly
impossible
situation? It is a misguided idea of "democracy" that everyone should
receive exactly the SAME education, even if it is a completely
miserable
one. Grouping students of similar abilities and/or disabilities would
greatly improve the efficiency of the educational process, and better
help
EACH child to achieve his or her MAXIMUM potential. Unfortunately,
that is
not "politically correct," so in the meantime the children will have
to
suffer from inadequate education.

Bill Hausmann
>>

Bill

I was a teacher long ago, and I quite agree with you. Why do we accept that
children do not need the same education in arts, but ask them to follow the
same curriculum in math, geography and repairing watches? (or don't we with
respect to the watches?). It is of course nonsense to pretend all people be
equal. The founding fathers of the USA were very wise, when they wrote in
the constitution of he USA, that all people are born "As equals" -- not
"equal". People are not equal, not even similar. A woman is not a man (well
known fact in sports, where next to all championships are divided in
"Gentlemen" and "ladies", like toilets are!) In my opinion to give the best
chances to anyone is, to educate him or her at his/her person level, not to
have bright, or even brilliant people in one clas with zombies or worse!

What has this to do with clarinet? Well, simply: we accept, that a teacher
of clarinet, violin, ar any other musical instrument teaches the f-minor
scale to one person in his second year, and to another one in his sixth year
as an instrumentalist, assuming the first one has the potential to be a good
soloist, whereas the other one will be a faithful member of his local band
...!

Ciao

Rien

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