[Dixielandjazz] MUSIC TEACHERS -- GIVE 'EM A BREAK

[pat ladd]

 classes about how to go market your talent and services and earn a living>>

Hi Tom,
            sorry , but I shall have to disagree with you there. I dont 
think that is what education is about. I remember a teacher at my school 
saying `You are not here to learn how to make a living. You are here to 
learn how to live`

School should give you the basic tools to open  doors. Pushing on them and 
exploring what is in the next room is YOUR responsibilty.Teaching you to 
play an instrument to a certain level is the schools responsibilty. 
Introducing you to various sorts of music, again the schools job. Should you 
wish to learn composition, arranging, marketing if you will, become a world 
expert on Hadyn, or Armstrong, that is a specialists job, not that of a 
general musical education.

I would certainly agree with you that the system is breaking down.
I would deplore, as I am sure you would, an educational system which fails 
to provide pupils with basic numeracy and literacy and has not introduced 
them to the idea that there is a big world out there to explore. Our system 
in the UK at the moment is failing even in that. Employers are having to set 
up basic maths lessons for graduates before they can be put to work. The 
sort of stuff that everyone in my generation knew at the age of fourteen.
Luckily we do not have the added complication that a pupil is given passing 
marks because they can run/jump/play games etc.It doesn`t work that way 
here.

Musical content (Just).

Its a Wonderful World....

Pat 



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