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...simple schoolboy is belied by the inclusion of an article written by his sister for the French magazine Positif. The article reveals that he had an artistically active childhood, directing a family puppet theater and delivering, in his early teens, bedtime lectures on Wagner accompanied by his violin...
Considering the philosophical, pedagogical and financial problems ahead, the supposed computer revolution in schools seems barely under way. "What you have now," says Alan Kay, chief scientist at Atari, "is a bunch of people attempting to teach violin who have had a six-week course in what the violin is and who have never heard violin music before...
...Mark Ptashne, professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, summer was just a time to continue things; the research that he does during the year and an annual month at an Italian music school, studying the violin...
...enable mothers to "multiply their baby's intelligence." Specifically, the school claims that parents can learn in one week of intense instruction (for a fee of $500) how to teach their infants to swim, to read, to do math, to speak foreign languages and to play the violin at the age of two. You can't make it to Philadelphia? "Better Baby Video," a California-based spinoff, can provide the same lessons in a weeklong course offered primarily in West Coast cities. Some critics believe that a11 this mainly makes babies learn a few skills by rote...
...rarefied world of music instruction, Shinichi Suzuki long ago introduced such standbys of Japanese industrial thought as volume, logic and enthusiasm. Suzuki began developing his learning-through-imitation method of teaching violin more than three decades ago. Today he is 84, and his world-famous technique is 300,000 students old (two-thirds of them in the U.S.). Suzuki begins by having his students, many of them just three or four years old, watch those in the classes ahead of them. After a couple of months, they are given empty, miniature violin cases and chopsticks for bows...