On 25 avr, 11:30, "BestStudentViolins.com" <SunMusicStri...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > On 18 avr, 12:50, "BestStudentViolins.com" <SunMusicStri...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > I'm curious to hear what other teachers on these forums might say
> > > about this. =A0I have what is probably a very common problem; =A0a
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> > > who wants to learn the instrument overnight, and is impatient with
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> > > I have an adult (well, college-age) piano student who only managed
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> > > get his book at this third lesson (yesterday). =A0Which was fine.
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> > > do introductory lessons for a few weeks. =A0But he showed up with a
> > > regular, adult-level book on Beatles music, and wanted to spend part
> > > of the lesson, learning those songs. =A0He didn't even bring an
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> > > Piano" Beatles book, but a difficult, professional one.
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> > > He doesn't even know what a quartet note is, or where the notes on
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> > > piano. (Well, he does now, after three lessons).
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> > > I have of course gently explained to him that studying music is not
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> > > overnight accomplishment, that he needs to trust me. =A0This is not
> > > dissimilar to the girl who called me, said she had bought a violin
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> > > Ebay, was moving to Austin in six weeks, and could I teach her to
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> > > the violin? =A0 I told her I could get her started, and when she
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> > > up the violin was a total piece of junk, and painted purple!
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> > > As a teacher, do you have any pat words of wisdom to deal with a
> > > student like this? =A0I feel like saying something like, in order to
> > > learn, you have to first admit that you don't know. =A0And that a
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> > > of humility is necessary.
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> > > Your thoughts appreciated,
> > > Connie
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> > You can quote a saying by the Jesuits; =93The more I study, the more I
> > learn that I know nothing.=94 By the way the Jesuits are the more
> > learned of the Catholic priests. They study all their life long. My
> > father used to tell a story. He went to the funeral of one of my
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> > father's friends, a Jesuit who died at 97. And he told, jokingly to
> > the Superior of the Jesuits that the deceased was still a schoolboy.
> > The Superior answered: =93You're right. We study all our life long.=94
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> > Christian
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> Well, I'm not al Christian, and my association with the Jesuits is the
> harm they did during the Inquisition. =A0sorry...See: =A0Sam Harris,
> Dawkins, Bertrand Russell, etc.:
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To my knowledge the Inquisitors were not Jesuits. They were
essentially Dominicans. Another saying attributed to the Jesuits was;
=93Give us a young man for a few years and nobody will be able to rule
over him.=94 Generally the Jesuits study so much that they become
somewhat free thinkers.
Christian
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