But parents can only pass on so much knowledge/preparation to their
off-spring based on their own experience. Survival/ moneymaking and
display may have been their struggle and goal so that leaves a grand
gap in the arts and culture. I am second-generation and was first to
get a college degree and advanced studies but it was pretty low on the
totem pole of family or marital values. I passed/am passing more on to
my children and grandchildren but am still conscious of being
unfinished in several areas. I was thinking of this last night
listening/watching a symphony- perhaps the greatest example around for
cooperation. A program on the construction of a Steinway followed-
amazing- and I play the piano- who knew??? Yet, the skilled craftsmen
that build these beauties are fading away in our robot/mechanical
world.

On Sep 16, 11:10 am, Don Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
> I say yes.  Mostly due to genetics.  A will to learn combined with the
> capacity to learn can yield amazing results.  Combine this with
> inherited traits such as excellent hearing/eyesight and/or
> dexterity(all inherited) and you have an exceptional human being.
> Yes, I know Beethoven was deaf but he wasn't born deaf.  Too much pipe
> organ is hard on the ears.
>
> dj
>
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 6:22 AM, Lee <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Well does it?
>
> > I say no, practice makes pefect, but what do you think?- Hide quoted text -
>
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