But what do you think of her idea?
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Of course people should also be able to play pieces straight off the page but we need to learn quite a bit to get to that point.
I think it's good to learn pieces from the scratch every now and then, even in the early stages
There's a lot of music out there that one cannot play from scratch, at least without a lobotomy or some such.