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Where Love is Deep (Shin’ichi Suzuki)

[p3] I have pledged that from today on I will not be satisfied unless I make every one of my students a fine violinist. Since my resolution is firm, although some of you may have no hope of improving, I am sorry but you will have to face your bad luck with no choice but to become fine players. For everyone becomes good if only he applies himself properly. [p3] I did not encourage them to advance in pieces. Instead, all the students did their best toward fostering a fine tone and musical performance. Let the student hastily advance in pieces: you will have a dropout. I won't do such a clumsy thing. [p6] I was fortunate enough, when twenty, to wake to a phrase in a book by an early nineteenth century agronomist Sontoku Ninomiya: “Read not ten thousand volumes; explore the logic of the heavens.” From that day, I followed his teaching to “penetrate the truth of great nature yourself, do not just read books,” turning my eyes to everything before me and to the natural world. [p12] In tal...

Talent Education and Your Child (Phillip L Scheldt)

 [p11] Teachers and parents are inclined to think that a particular child who is slow in advancement compared to the faster students has no "talent." This judgement is very harmful and often discourages the child and parents, leading them to drop out. But really this slow stage may be an incubation period for the child. [p18] Competition is never recommended. Competition does more harms than good. The aim of the movement is not necessarily to make a musician but to help people love music and art.