Dear raji,
This reminded of another thread, maybe in this forum or maybe in the Hindu.
During the recent music season, there was gripe among some, about the new set of dance teachers. Apparently these are girls, still in their twenties, having had an arangetram, and who feel qualified enough to teach the art to others. The gripe among established teachers, was that these new graduates, were cannibalizing their potential clients and hence livelihood. Though no one could come up with any suggestion to prevent this.
Your student in singpo reminds of this one, and I am not casting aspirations on her tutoring skills or music knowledge. That is not my aim here.
Mine is more an observation, that the norm now appears to be, that if I know levels 1 to 4, I should also be able to teach the same to others, while learning level 5 .. or something along those lines. Such were not, I think, about 40 years ago, when my sister’s violin teacher, komalavalli srinivasan, who though took lessons, was already an established AIR grade vidwan and a violinist of some repute. One excelled, before they taught. Though not always..and here is a story to highlight that.
My high school headmaster also subbed as the 3rd language French teacher. He used to literally ‘mug’ a portion of the lesson for the day, to last 20 minutes. Bang on the dot of the 20th minute, the peon used to come ostensibly for HM to answer an important phone call. HM used to come 10 minutes later, all mugged up for the remaining of the class. It was not before long, that we found out this trick, and caused us no amount of glee, to see, this ‘instant’ learning and ‘instant’ transfer of just acquired knowledge.
Just some disconnected thoughts. That’s all.
Thank you.
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