On Thu, 9/12/10, Michael <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Michael <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Tango-L] teachers aren't so important
> To: "Sandhill Crane" <[email protected]>, [email protected]
> Date: Thursday, 9 December, 2010, 22:13
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>
> My teacher taught what I needed, not what I wanted. There's
> a big difference
> between the two, and not always obvious.
>
> Michael
Very very true. Unfortunately, a teacher who teaches what the students need
soon finds himself out of a job. So most mediocre wannabe "teachers" find easy
money in teaching fancy steps [which the students want, but soon forget, & have
to come back for more fancy steps] thereby creating a whole army of cripples
who, if they ever, eventually, dance properly, do so in spite of their
"teachers", after a long, unnecessarily slow empirical process, with little
theoretical input. No wonder that some generalise that teachers are not so
important; but that is throwing out the baby with the bathwater.
Andrew W. RYSER SZYMAÑSKI,
23b All Saints Road,
London, W11 1HE,
07944 128 739.
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