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    August 2008
Posted by tankerbuilder on Tuesday, June 16, 2015 10:27 AM

Karl :

   Doesn't it make you kinda swell up with a little pride when one of your students  manages

to do well in the field ?

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    January 2007
Posted by the doog on Sunday, June 7, 2015 9:16 PM

I've been a guitar teacher for over 25 years. I've learned that "good teaching" means being able to take the simplest concept and translate it in at least three different ways. Some of the concepts in Music are completely alien to the average person, so in my teaching I use a lot of metaphors and comparisons.

I also once unknowingly taught a dyslexic student. I just could NOT get him to make progress. Finally, one day, after watching him try to form a simple chord from a diagram, I asked him straight out if he had any learning disability. He broke down and admitted his condition. From there on, I had to write and draw every scale, chord, and fretboard diagram in mirror image. From then on the kid excelled. He actually wound up working in L.A. with a songwriting company that supplies songs for Britney Spears and The Back Street Boys.

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Posted by BlackSheepTwoOneFour on Friday, June 5, 2015 9:11 PM

Well said TB!

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    March 2003
  • From: Towson MD
Posted by gregbale on Friday, June 5, 2015 3:44 PM

Truer words were never spoken, TB.

One of the best pieces of advice I ever received was "Take the time to teach somebody what somebody took the time to teach you." Kind of puts it all in perspective.

Greg

George Lewis:

"Every time you correct me on my grammar I love you a little fewer."
 
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Teachers
Posted by tankerbuilder on Friday, June 5, 2015 3:28 PM

Okay there ! 

All you fellows , including yours truly , have a problem . In the thread about how long we might live , it was clear as a bell . We can't go for a long time guys . Why  ? Well ,we are bonified , dyed in the wool teachers !

 Whaddya mean we ain't teachers ? How many times do we talk about builds and answer folks questions about these here model kits ?

    That , and we are constantly striving to improve our own skills , and not knowing it , are willingly passing that knowledge down the line .

 That's what a good teacher does , isn't it ? pass knowledge down to our descendents.There will be many who are now just getting their first issue of F.S.M. and if life doesn't blow up in everyone's face they will read our comments on line and when the comments or tips are recycled so there you have it .

        Like it or not all our styles and all we are teachers is out there ,  so we have to stick around till those in their thirties are in their seventies . As for us already past seventy , hell , I don't know about you , but I'd rather pass on at the bench doing what I love !      T.B.

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