{"id":1833,"date":"2014-07-24T17:37:37","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T00:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/?p=1833"},"modified":"2018-03-03T17:40:07","modified_gmt":"2018-03-04T01:40:07","slug":"whos-being-tested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/archives\/1833","title":{"rendered":"Who\u2019s Being Tested?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like many malcontents, or seeming-malcontents, my old friend the Curmudgeon is an idealist. He\u2019s a fine pianist, and a superb teacher\u2014kind, humorous, patient, and resourceful\u2014<!--more-->and when he writes to me, he lets his hair down. I recently came across this from 2005:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTried a piano-teacher discussion group, had to drop out. Imagine: the teachers spoke of gifted students as having something <i>wrong<\/i> with them! Something wrong with being gifted! And they spoke of themselves as Beethoven would not have spoken of himself: as completed musicians!! They have no clue that it\u2019s <i>we<\/i> who are being tested by the lessons we give. And found wanting!!!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of them had a super-bright and gifted student, an 8-y.o. boy. The teacher had no idea what it means to be that bright, and the group took it to be their job to find \u2018the fault\u2019 with the kid!!!!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I\u2019d stayed, I would have started screaming. I\u2019m kind of screaming here, aren\u2019t I?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Poor Curmudge! I wrote him words of comfort. <span class=\"jb-end-of-post\"><img class=\"jb-end-of-post\" src=\"\/Mordent.svg\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like many malcontents, or seeming-malcontents, my old friend the Curmudgeon is an idealist. He\u2019s a fine pianist, and a superb teacher\u2014kind, humorous, patient, and resourceful\u2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1834,"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833\/revisions\/1834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}