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Intelligence is learnable. People can become more intelligent by living and working every day in a particular kind of environment: one that coaches them in using problem-solving skills and praises them for using the skills; one that holds them accountable for using them well because it assumes they are smart and capable.
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There is mounting evidence coming from research in cognitive science and social psychology to support this theory… we are legitimately able to behave as if anyone can learn anything. In the world outside the fast track, advanced placement, and gifted and talented programs, there are hidden capacities waiting to be unleashed — and not just in a few undiscovered geniuses.
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Not long ago at the commencement exercises of one of our large universities an
excellent orchestra was giving a concert of masterpieces. The men of the audience trained to a finish in the three R’s but with the usual American lack of the cultural and aesthetical, stopped the program of good music and clamored for ragtime. The demand was so insistent the orchestra was unable to continue the concert. This is a striking example of an education that turns out men of this type who are, as stated before, in a rut, one-sided, selfish, discourteous.
Campbell, as cited in Koza, 1993.
Some fun quotes from the beginning of the 20th century regarding the popular v. art music dichotomy from the point of view of music educators (who, through the designing of their curriculum, did much to keep this dichotomy in place). There are other quotes from this article (some along this lines, some dealing more with the role of women in music etc.) that I’ll be sharing soon.
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Koza, J. E. (1993). The “Missing Males” and Other Gender Issues in Music Education: Evidence from the “Music Supervisors’ Journal,” 1914-1924. Journal of Research in Music Education, 41, pp. 212-232.
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To study music, we must learn the rules. To create music, we must break them.
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“The arts teach children to exercise that most exquisite of capacities, the ability to make judgments in the absence of rules
The best teachers don’t give you the answers. They just point the way and let you make your own choices, your own mistakes. That way you get all the glory. And you deserve it.
Will, Glee 112 (“Mattress”) (via gleeky) (via tumblingforth)
So while I have a problem with the way Will handles a lot of things in his music classroom, this quote was one of the best from last night’s episode, if not the entire season so far. It also reinforces a lot of what I’ve been trying to incorporate into my still-developing teacher strategy. Hi, scaffolding, Will Schuester from Glee is a fan of you.
(Take this as a tease for my still-upcoming review of Will as a music teacher!)
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I’m just wondering if in fact the new music is just the old music again. And, if that in fact it would actually just be the end of music.
Glenn Branca, NYT.
#1) Culture Industry & Adorno much?
#2) I disagreed with Adorno’s work when I first read it 2 years ago and was dismayed when it kept coming up in my academic life. Here it is again and I’m still just as bothered by these same kind of melodramatic, all-or-nothing, & attention-grabbing statements (“the end of music”? Really?). Mr Branca seems to enjoy perpetuating the judgmental, snobby attitude that has, in my personal experience, frequently been associated with Western art music (“Certainly music itself is not dead. We’ll continue to hear something approximating it blaring”; emphasis mine).
#3) I think music educators in general need to be careful about attitudes such as these, or at least know that these attitudes are out there; it’s much more likely that the students in our classes have been raised on a diet of popular music than Western art music, and music educators may run a risk of alienating their students through letting these types of attitudes accidentally show through repertoire choices or verbal comments. Regardless of how we aesthetically or personally feel about any type of music, our students may have positive associations towards the same works of music and we have to be conscious of that fact.
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Education is learning what you didn’t even know you didn’t know.
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The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
