Author: bmcgar ★2017
Date: 2014-08-12 09:49
Any good teacher would not consider you asking why as challenging their authority. Not only that, but if you know the "whys," you're more likely to study effectively and advance quicker.
I, myself, don't like teaching passive students. In fact, I just lost a passive student.
After three years of study with me, his mother told me that he was very frustrated at being constantly expected to play challenging material, and was quitting, despite my monitoring him and asking him what he was thinking and feeling about what he was doing all that time.
Had he told me of his frustration and told me how he felt, and had he been forthright when I asked him if he was happy the way things were going instead of just nodding assent all the time, we could easily have made changes, or at the very least I could have found him another teacher. Instead, it all boiled over.
I'm semi-scary, but not so scary that a student need ever fear differing with me or asking me why.
B.
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