Saturday, January 22, 2005
RE: Are Teachers Important?
One of my biggest regrets is the fact that I was such a contentious composition student. I was more interested in challenging my teachers than in learning from them. I had some great teachers who could have shared more with me than I allowed, because I seemed to have a profound suspicion of male authority figures.
It would have been interesting to see how I would have fared with a female composition teacher, but there were so few to be found in those days. And, truth be told, I probably would have been just as confrontational with a woman.
It’s sad to me now, because I sometimes see that suspicion among students in their dealings with me -- I can feel myself getting pegged as whitemaleestablishment, instead of being seen as a musician, an artist, who loves sharing what he’s learned. It doesn’t happen very often, thankfully, but when it does, I find myself regretting all I missed by being blinded by a similar attitude in my younger days.
posted by Lawrence Dillon
10:46 AM
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