<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Nov 8, 2007, at 9:15 PM, Willem Blees wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; ">Sorry, Jeff, no matter how you slice it, music cannot be learned on your own, out of book, without guidance. </SPAN><BR style="font-family: Tahoma; "><BR style="font-family: Tahoma; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; "> </SPAN><BR style="font-family: Tahoma; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; ">Wim</SPAN></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV>I'm sorry, Wim. That sounds like you never tried it.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><DIV>On Nov 9, 2007, at 8:33 AM, <A href="mailto:rwest1@unl.edu">rwest1@unl.edu</A> wrote:</DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">The democratic model aims to educate large numbers of people without particular regard to each separate individual. Depth of learning sometimes suffers in order to be able to spread the education to millions of people. That's our current public education system.<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Exactly. It isn't an efficient system for developing the strengths of individuals. It is a one-size-fits-all-model. Everybody absorbs and regurgitates the same material.</DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> The tutorial model aims to educate individuals. Depth of education and individual attention is key. Home schooling represents this trend today.</BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Which is also how the Masters were educated. Maybe not at home, but in a setting that was customized to the strengths of each individual.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Jeff</DIV><BR><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>Jeff Tanner, RPT</DIV><DIV>University of South Carolina</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>