[CAUT] CAUT credential vs. academic program?

[Ron Nossaman]

> Most (not all) of the stuff I hear and read from some of these "self 
> taught" guys (and Mr. N is one of the worst in that regard)  suffers 
> precisely from this lack of varied perspective. They see things from one 
> pair of eyes - their own. Never engaging in the give-and-take that a 
> true student/teacher relationship is based on, from which both learn. 
> Perhaps that's why some of these folks have such a jaundiced view of the 
> educational establishment - they seem to universalize their own 
> miserable experience which may have been caused in part by their own 
> unwillingness to perhaps listen to someone else's voice but their own...
> 
> Israel Stein


I see that I've missed out. Had you been around to guide and 
inform me throughout my miserable mislead life, I might have 
eventually learned something worthwhile and become 
knowledgeable and competent at what I do. Pity it's too late 
for me to take up the Stein way of thinking at this point. I'm 
already ruined by too many rational cause and effect connections.

And I still have met more than a few people who became quite 
accomplished musicians without formal instruction of any kind, 
which is what this was all about.

Ron N