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When is Education Not Education?

This is a complaint. A complaint about teachers. In particular, teachers of musical instruments, especially piano, but more than that.

Here’s the nature of my complaint. But before I give you the basis of the complaint, answer this question:

Which group of teachers has the highest failure rate?

If you answered public school teachers, you’d be close, but not close enough.

If you answered Seminary professors you might also be close, but again, not close enough.

Maybe you thought of college professors in general. And while you might have some basis for this, you would not even be close.

Here’s my answer. Music teachers!

These are the teachers who offer to teach your child an instrument – piano, violin, flute, cello, clarinet, guitar, harp – you name it.

But look at how many students take music lessons then quit as soon as they are teenagers.

Now they would probably quit Math and English classes if they could, too. But music is one subject that mom and dad say is optional.

But the fact that it’s optional is not why the kids quit.

They quit because they can’t play the instrument.
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STEP TWO: FEMINIZE THE CULTURE WITH MUSIC

In the first part of this discussion topic, I highlighted the feminization of culture with hymns. Here, I want to look at music.

If your life is similar to mine, then we’ve both spent an awful amount of time trying to make up for a bad education. Public schooling was my background. It was not good. Here’s why. Being hostile to Christianity, public school secular education left out Read the rest of this entry »

Step 3: USE MUSIC FOR THE MORAL REVOLUTION

In this series on the feminization of culture, I’ve wanted to get you thinking about communication. In particular, communication with music.

First, I highlighted how hymns were used to help eliminate a rigorous intellectualism in the church and replace it with a more emotional environment.

Second, I drew your attention to how music is an important ingredient in communication, and how we can contradict ourselves by having the wrong music with the right words.
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