{"id":1841,"date":"2014-08-09T17:50:42","date_gmt":"2014-08-10T00:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/?p=1841"},"modified":"2018-03-03T17:52:22","modified_gmt":"2018-03-04T01:52:22","slug":"unnecessary-teachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/archives\/1841","title":{"rendered":"Unnecessary Teachers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As teachers, we want our students eventually to work on their own\u2014learning repertoire, acquiring technique, forming interpretations, giving performances, deciding what to do next\u2014and teaching their own students. Our job is thus to make ourselves unnecessary;<!--more--> and toward this end, \u201cto create situations in which learning may occur.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One situation in which a lot of learning will occur is when the student prepares a piece independently, consulting with us only on specifics\u2014problematic passages and interpretive issues; presenting us in lessons with only the bare minimum of the piece necessary for consultation; never the whole piece until it\u2019s all ready.<\/p>\n<p>The first student with whom I took this approach was perfect for the purpose: highly gifted, intelligent and independent-minded. What a pleasure it was for me to hear his Chopin C-minor Nocturne at his recital! And how great was his pride in it!<\/p>\n<p>After all, having learned a few pieces with our guidance, why <i>shouldn\u2019t<\/i> the student be able to learn without us? Why shouldn\u2019t that be a goal for us?<\/p>\n<p><center class=\"jb-trill\"><img src=\"\/trill.svg\" scale=\"0\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The Curmudgeon says some teachers are unnecessary from Day One, but he\u2019s in a cynical mood. <span class=\"jb-end-of-post\"><img class=\"jb-end-of-post\" src=\"\/Mordent.svg\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As teachers, we want our students eventually to work on their own\u2014learning repertoire, acquiring technique, forming interpretations, giving performances, deciding what to do next\u2014and teaching their own students. Our job is thus to make ourselves unnecessary;<\/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\/1841"}],"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=1841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1842,"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841\/revisions\/1842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}