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The Means and End Problem and Pedagogical Clichés

Were it possible, would you hire Van Gogh to teach your children how to draw and paint? I doubt he would be a successful teacher unless he had cultivated an interest in and an ability to guide others. As English philosopher Michael Oakeshott has pointed out, “There is a difference
28 Dec 2024 6 min read
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Thinking About Practice: Part Five

Reducing Music to Technique: Intelligent Bunglers and Brainless Acrobats First, some disclaimers: 1. The words in the title after the colon are not mine, they’re Carl Flesch’s and are from an age when musical invective was more a feature of pedagogy than it is today (so I assume—
22 Jun 2015 12 min read
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