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Essentials of music / 2 The American history and encyclopedia of music / W.L. Hubbard, ed, 1910
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1Studies," and under the guidance of his competent instructors overhaul the material that is needed, (exercises and concert-selections) for the lower grades particularly.
3The able student, after having gained in this way a practical insight into the mechanism of teaching, will have little difficulty in going ahead unassisted, the more so, as all the more advanced studies belong to a period which for the most part is still fresh in his memory.
5In general too little importance is given in America to the functions of a teacher. Competent and incompetent teachers are often valued alike by an unknowing public.
7Business ability in an incompetent teacher may achieve better financial results than the merits of a teacher who lacks this valuable asset. This capacity has become a factor in our music life and the pupil very often has reason to repent of his time and money misspent in this way.
9It might prove a beneficial law to have every young musician, who wishes to take up the vocation of teacher, examined by a commission of violinists, in larger places only, and settle in this manner at least the point, that unpreparedness and incompetence shall not claim the same rights and privileges as experience and competence, and that the young teacher might learn to appreciate the fact, that the profession of teaching is to be considered a credit and honor, and not the means to beguile innocent victims.
11What is there more honorable and satisfying than to be the educator of a talented musician, to have kept him always in the right path so as to have him reach the highest goal, to which talent and effort entitled him, to have followed him in his progress with deepest interest and sympathy, to have his errors and shortcomings gradually rooted out, to have awakened his enthusiasm for new and greater
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