Klarinet Archive - Posting 000030.txt from 2006/07

From: Patton Hunnicutt <bass9396@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Need some advice on teaching an 8-year-old.
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2006 22:28:56 -0400

I'm talking about edifying children. You're talking
aout practical matters. They don't gel. I think my
educational philosophy is clear.

--- "Lacy, Edwin" <el2@-----.edu> wrote:

> <<<How could you have reservations about educating
> someone?>>>
>
> If the fact that someone expresses reservations
> about teaching clarinet
> to an eight year old, and this equates for you as
> having "reservations
> about teaching someone," then by the same logic, I
> suppose you would
> have no reservations about teaching the clarinet, or
> the tuba, to a
> three-year old.
>
> People mature at different rates, and they learn at
> different rates. For
> learning to be effective, the student must be
> prepared, psychologically
> as well as physically, to learn. If they are not,
> the effort of both
> the student and the teacher will be wasted.
>
> Ed Lacy
> University of Evansville
>
>
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