Author: wkleung
Date: 2014-11-03 05:30
I think it is difficult to judge how well someone teaches purely by the quality of his students.
A mediocre teacher with the most talented students in the history of clarinet playing on planet earth will produce better students than an excellent teacher working exclusively with tone-deaf students with no fingers and only one functioning lung.
Of course this is an exaggeration, but I think the reality is somewhere in between.
Often a teacher becomes well known and can get the best (and only the best) students, and the teacher's greatness becomes a self-perpetrating truth. At least that was the case in my native Hong Kong.
Ideally a teacher should be rated for value added, and not the final value of his output.
Post Edited (2014-11-03 05:34)
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