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Do you love your teacher? REALLY LOVE your teacher?

no, he's terrible
3 (5.9%)
i like him, he's okay
11 (21.6%)
i love him, but ONLY as a teacher
19 (37.3%)
i love him so much, i want to marry him!! (i love him as a PERSON/ FRIEND)
8 (15.7%)
i love my piano teacher. and my minor instrument teacher. and solfege teacher. and theories teacher... etc.
10 (19.6%)

Total Members Voted: 46



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Offline db05

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Do you love your teacher?
on: October 13, 2008, 12:44:28 PM
I love my piano teacher. I also love my guitar teachers, history and theory teacher and the visiting professor. Yes I love them for what they do. But I also love some of them as friends. Do you guys feel the same way about your teacher?

If my teachers are here, I LOVE YOU!!!  :-*  :-*  :-*
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Offline frank_48

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Re: Do you love your teacher?
Reply #1 on: October 13, 2008, 01:07:12 PM
wheres the "her" option?

anyway, no, not really, but shes hot though. ;D
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Offline concerto_love

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Reply #2 on: October 13, 2008, 01:54:17 PM
Of course!! I *cough* love him..  :-[ Well, RG, I love you...
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Reply #3 on: October 13, 2008, 05:04:18 PM
ommmmmgggg  :o :o :o :o of ccccourssssseeee  i love my teacher  ;D ;D  ;D ;D ;D  :-* :-* :-*  i hope we can get marred someday !!! !!!!  ;D ;D :o :o :o :o :'( :'( :-* :-\ :-X ??? 8) >:( ;D




I don't have a teacher.

Offline db05

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Re: Do you love your teacher?
Reply #4 on: October 14, 2008, 12:59:18 PM
wheres the "her" option?

anyway, no, not really, but shes hot though. ;D

Wanna marry her?  ;) Free lessons!!

I don't have a teacher.

Awww. Too bad. You're missing out.
Get a teacher. Now.  :-*
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Offline frank_48

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Reply #5 on: October 14, 2008, 05:12:40 PM
Wanna marry her?  ;) Free lessons!!

im already getting free lessons actually, :D

gave her my xbox360 and ps3 in exchange for 2 years free lessons  :P
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Offline db05

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Reply #6 on: October 15, 2008, 02:52:31 PM
im already getting free lessons actually, :D

gave her my xbox360 and ps3 in exchange for 2 years free lessons  :P

Your teacher is a GAMER?!?!

Some of my classmates are gamers, and they can really play their instruments. Must be something to do with coordination. So I can't really say if it's a good deal.  ::)
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Reply #7 on: October 15, 2008, 03:27:28 PM
Your teacher is a GAMER?!?!

Some of my classmates are gamers, and they can really play their instruments. Must be something to do with coordination. So I can't really say if it's a good deal.  ::)

well its been a year, working well so far  8)
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Re: Do you love your teacher?
Reply #8 on: October 17, 2008, 11:06:33 AM
Yes, And Db_05.

How I wish you we're my piano teacher.
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Reply #9 on: October 17, 2008, 12:53:42 PM
I can't marry with my teacher since he's a priest.... T.T
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OMG, it's spa time!!! ;D

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Reply #10 on: October 17, 2008, 03:03:17 PM
Isn't it a bit...wrong to really LOVE your teacher? As in, marrage, etc?

"Oh look! There's the postwoman...how I LOVE her because she delivers my mail!" ;)

It's stupid! They're job is to teach you! Not to have a bunch of schoolkids or students lusting over them!

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Offline db05

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Reply #11 on: October 17, 2008, 04:39:43 PM
Isn't it a bit...wrong to really LOVE your teacher? As in, marrage, etc?

"Oh look! There's the postwoman...how I LOVE her because she delivers my mail!" ;)

It's stupid! They're job is to teach you! Not to have a bunch of schoolkids or students lusting over them!

G.W.K

I just worded it that way for fun. It can be romantic at most, friendly at least.  ;)
I don't think it's wrong, btw. And I believe someone on here married his teacher. Check this out LOL. https://www.pianostreet.com/smf/index.php/topic,20480.msg224752.html#msg224752


Yes, And Db_05.

How I wish you we're my piano teacher.

You are at a higher level than I am, so it's better the other way around.
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Re: Do you love your teacher?
Reply #12 on: October 17, 2008, 09:44:16 PM
I can't marry with my teacher since he's a priest.... T.T

I have a feeling there's a cliched joke in that somewhere.



I think if you stick a guy age 20-40 in front of a group of teenage girls, they will fall head over heals for him.  It's a danger of teaching. 
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Reply #13 on: October 18, 2008, 07:49:01 AM
Can someone here be my teacher...  :'(
when dignity, love, and joy meet...

OMG, it's spa time!!! ;D

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Reply #14 on: October 18, 2008, 12:56:24 PM
Can someone here be my teacher...  :'(

Wish I could teach, by correspondence. Unfortunately I have don't have the equipment.
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Offline cai hong

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Reply #15 on: October 19, 2008, 01:23:33 PM
YES!!! I really love my piano teacher especially! She is my greatest mentor I ever have! Without her I can't play piano at all!! I treat her like my own dear aunt!! Aww I wish she joined ps...
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Reply #16 on: October 19, 2008, 01:34:34 PM
YES!!! I really love my piano teacher especially! She is my greatest mentor I ever have! Without her I can't play piano at all!! I treat her like my own dear aunt!! Aww I wish she joined ps...
:'(

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OMG, it's spa time!!! ;D

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Reply #17 on: January 14, 2009, 10:28:01 AM
I’ve only known my piano teacher for about 2 months, if that. And I really, really, really liked her from day one, not only as a teacher but more so as an individual. I only wish we had met in an earlier life. Oh well, that’s life I guess :'(
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Reply #18 on: January 19, 2009, 01:42:40 AM
Love wouldn't be my choice of word, more towards intimidated.
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Reply #19 on: January 20, 2009, 02:21:04 PM
i am a student of nature. and yes i love my teacher tremendously :) :-* :-*
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Reply #20 on: January 30, 2009, 10:54:50 AM
Yes I love my teacher. He is amazing pianist and very kind human. Iam thankful he gave me a chance after all....

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Reply #21 on: February 07, 2009, 11:16:18 AM
I LIKE MY TEACHER VERY MUCH AND SHE IS VERY GOOD WITH ME. :) ;)

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Reply #22 on: April 07, 2009, 06:49:13 PM
I dont like my teacher...But I understand he expects a lot of me so thats why hes sssooooo picky!!!
All the old members here I kno, uve been quite mean lately, even though I apologized so i would like to ask you to please if u dont have anything nice to say dont say anything at all. Thank you.

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Reply #23 on: April 07, 2009, 07:50:54 PM
How can one love someone that does not exsist? maybe one day I will have a teacher but for now I dont! :'(

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Reply #24 on: April 07, 2009, 07:57:13 PM
I didn't really like my first teacher, but I really like my new teacher :), at least she has a sense of humour and doesn’t keep me on the same piece all lesson! :o :(
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Reply #25 on: April 14, 2009, 06:13:21 PM
wheres the "her" option?

anyway, no, not really, but shes hot though. ;D

oh thats luvley
All the old members here I kno, uve been quite mean lately, even though I apologized so i would like to ask you to please if u dont have anything nice to say dont say anything at all. Thank you.

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Reply #26 on: April 14, 2009, 08:12:06 PM
Yes! I know him for about two years. He isn't a professional or the best teacher of the world but.. He is pure honey! Very friendly, funny, optimist.. He says that I'm his favourite pupil haha.
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Reply #27 on: July 09, 2009, 12:50:27 PM
I love my teacher... :-*
She's so kind and patient, and she has taught me for almost a decade... 8)
She's the person who make me interested in music, and if she is here, i'ld say
 :)THANK YOU :)
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Reply #28 on: July 09, 2009, 01:56:56 PM
I think my Piano teacher is bloody brilliant... she helped turn me into an amateur piano player into a Pianist... she helped rid me of my shoddy flat hands, my inability to read the articulation on the page, my poor voicing and my inability to play properly... in three and a half short years...

She is brilliant and she's the most devoted piano teacher I've ever known.

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Reply #29 on: July 09, 2009, 05:08:07 PM
I'd vote for "No, it's just a business arrangement."

(Bob is thinking that could be taken the wrong way...)
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Reply #30 on: July 09, 2009, 06:53:53 PM
Depends on which teacher you're talking about..lol Let's see...violin, voice, former piano and voice, school teachers...which ones? All of them?

Violin - Eh...she's okay. Some days she's good, other days I wish I had a different one.
Classical Voice - Like her.
Former piano - Loved her!
Former voice - Loved him for a while...then...er, not so much. Did something I didn't like, and I'm done with him.
English 1 - Loved her!!!!!!!
English 2 - Loved her.
Algebra 2 - Loved her!
Latin 1 - He was great.
American History - ugh, not my favorite subject, but the teacher's ok.
Former art teachers - Crazy, but awesome.

Um, that's all I can think of...
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Reply #31 on: July 15, 2009, 04:08:25 AM
My teacher and I have an interesting relationship. Were she my age, and acting like she was back then, I would probably hate her for being a complete plastic. She's matured a bit now, and my nerdyness counteracts her bubblyness and we are good friends. She's pretty awesome, and she's got a damn good singing voice.

My singing teacher is more of a formal relationship. He is a teacher and no more.
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Reply #32 on: July 15, 2009, 11:43:51 PM
Love my teacher. he keeps me in line by making fun of me when my technique sucks.

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Reply #33 on: September 19, 2009, 05:24:20 PM
I love her as a teacher AND sometimes she's a really great friend to me :):):);D
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Reply #34 on: April 07, 2010, 02:38:48 AM
Yes! I love all my music teachers! It might just be me, but I find musical people more enjoyable and just that much cooler!  8)
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Reply #35 on: July 23, 2010, 03:20:06 PM
I hate my teacher, she is so biased against me.
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Reply #36 on: July 23, 2010, 05:38:01 PM
Isn't it a bit...wrong to really LOVE your teacher? As in, marrage, etc?

"Oh look! There's the postwoman...how I LOVE her because she delivers my mail!" ;)

It's stupid! They're job is to teach you! Not to have a bunch of schoolkids or students lusting over them!

G.W.K
Ha!  Now I know who GWK is! ;D

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Reply #37 on: July 23, 2010, 05:58:03 PM
All of my students love me!   8)   :)
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Reply #38 on: July 25, 2010, 06:51:31 PM
All of my students love me!   8)   :)

That's cause you're cool  8) and nice  :)

I really like my teacher a lot now. At first I thought she doesn't like me very much and that she doesn't like the way I play at all, because she was always saying sooo many things I did wrong, but then she didn't so much anymore and she said some nice things too :) and at the end of the year when we had a lot of recitals and exams she was really really nice :) so now I really like her a lot :) and I'm really glad she's my teacher  :)  8)

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Reply #39 on: July 25, 2010, 09:01:52 PM
I loved my previous teacher, not the current one.

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Reply #40 on: July 25, 2010, 09:32:51 PM
My only piano teacher had the great good sense to tell me that I had no natural talent for playing that most wonderful of instruments; I respect him very much for this, because he was encouraging me at the time, not discouraging me. He knew of what he spoke and I knew how to take it. OK, I knew that he was right without him having to tell me, but that's not quite the point, I think. He could so easily have asked me not to bother to turn up for lessons, but he never did - very much to the contrary, in fact.

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Reply #41 on: July 25, 2010, 10:37:51 PM
That's cause you're cool  8) and nice  :)


Thank you!  littletune, I appreciate that!   :)
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Reply #42 on: July 26, 2010, 10:35:30 AM
My only piano teacher had the great good sense to tell me that I had no natural talent for playing that most wonderful of instruments;

What did your composition teacher say??

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Reply #43 on: July 26, 2010, 02:03:48 PM
What did your composition teacher say??
About what?

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Reply #44 on: July 26, 2010, 02:43:53 PM
My only piano teacher had the great good sense to tell me that I had no natural talent for playing that most wonderful of instruments; I respect him very much for this, because he was encouraging me at the time, not discouraging me. He knew of what he spoke and I knew how to take it. OK, I knew that he was right without him having to tell me, but that's not quite the point, I think. He could so easily have asked me not to bother to turn up for lessons, but he never did - very much to the contrary, in fact.

Here's to Stephen Savage, a man of great wisdom and perception...

Best,

Alistair



Well I don't understand exactly everything  :-\ (like usually  :D ) but are you sad about what your teacher said to you?  :( cause some teachers are really  :-X  :-X . I had a teacher in 3rd grade who said bad things to me too   :( like once she wanted me to finish a math exercise and I was just too scared and I couldn't even think anymore and all other kids went to the gym and only I had to stay in the classroom and I was crying cause I was scared and i couldn't do that stupid math exercise (cause I can't do things so fast specially if I'm nervous) and then she got really angry and she said: oh you're so stupid I hope your dog is smarter than you!  :( and she was always saying I can't even read and write which was kinda funny because when I was 3 years old I really wanted to learn how to read so i started learning by myself and when I was 4 I could already read and write but then in 3rd grade my teacher was saying I can't  :-\
And one other teacher said something that made me really sad too, I guess that wasn't really so bad but it made me almost the most sad. Because I was singing in school choir and at the end of the year we went to a festival or something and two days before we went everyone had to sing for themselves and then she said to some of us that we shouldn't sing at all and that we should just open our mouth  :( which was kinda stupid, why would we even be there if we're not supposed to sing. so a lot of kids didn't even go then but I was too sad and embarressed to tell people why I'm not going so I went anyway (just felt really stupid and sad  :'( ). And then I just couldn't sing at all anymore for a while, because every time I tried singing I just heard this horrible sound!  :( but now I had to start singing again because we have to sing really a lot at music theory and my teacher says I sing well and nice just that I shouldn't be so nervous.

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Reply #45 on: July 26, 2010, 03:02:18 PM
are you sad about what your teacher said to you?
No, not at all -very much the reverse, in fact, for reasons that I will endeavour to outline below.

I had a teacher in 3rd grade who said bad things to me too
But what mine said to me was not a "bad thing" per se, even if it might have been construed by some as arguably less than a good thing that I did not possess the kind of natural talent for piano playing that he might reasonably have hoped for in one of his students. What that statement helped to do was establish in both our minds not only that it would be silly of me to expect that I could develop into a pianist (not that I possessed any such expectation, as it happens) but also that my interest in the instrument and his rôle in assisting and encouraging the development of that interest could almost certainly benefit from a realisation and acceptance at the outset that I would better be able to think for and express thoughts through the medium of the piano were I to try to work out how best to do so free from any worry about that lack of natural ability to play it.

In practice, then, I was not "sad" about this statement but relieved and indeed pleased that this perception could pave the way for the best and most useful things that I could derive from future piano lessons. That said, he seemed to be pleased with such progress as I was able to make in playing the instrument and supported and encouraged my efforts in sight-reading my way through thousands of pages of Chopin, Liszt, Alkan, Busoni, Godowsky, Rakhmaninov, Medtner et al not only in terms of what I would be able to learn about piano writing from this experience but also because it would be well-nigh impossible not to develop at least some kind of technical facility from doing this!

Let's face it - he could instead have suggested that I find another teacher!...

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Reply #46 on: July 26, 2010, 03:05:39 PM
I tell you, littletune, you crack me up everytime I read one of your posts! ;D  That WAS a stupid thing for your choir conductor to tell you!  >:(   I had a professional chorus for 2 years, and used to tell the ones that were really sticking out like sore thumbs, to just mouth the words.  But that was my job and theirs and they were getting paid for the way they were singing.  And if the chorus sounded bad, I was the one to blame.  But a school choir?!  That's really dumb. ::)
I think what ahinton is saying is that his teacher was a remarkable pedagogue who knew his students well and knew what to say to each particular one.  This is what a great teacher is all about.  Not just teaching a method and imparting scales, but tailoring the instruction to each individual need.  I don't teach that much, but that's what I love about it. :)

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Reply #47 on: July 26, 2010, 03:10:20 PM
Oops!  He already answered you! ;)

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Reply #48 on: July 27, 2010, 11:54:02 AM
Oops!  He already answered you! ;)

well I do have a little problems understanding everything he wrote  :-\  :P
So does Ahinton play piano now or not?  :-\  :)

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Reply #49 on: July 27, 2010, 03:39:56 PM
well I do have a little problems understanding everything he wrote  :-\  :P
So does Ahinton play piano now or not?  :-\  :)
No, he doesn't and inded has not done so for quite some time - but not because he was discouraged from doing so by anything at all other than his overarching lack of enjoyment of the sounds that he once used to produce when trying to do so! That said, my love of the instrument has continued to deepen ever since. Piano playing is for pianists! I don't even use the instrument when I compose - not even when I'm composing for it. I do, however, wish that I could do someting useful at the piano but I may as well recognise and accept my own limitations in that respect and try to work around them as I have indeed endeavoured to do.

Best,

Alistair
Alistair Hinton
Curator / Director
The Sorabji Archive
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