I find it rather amusing that you think I see would see myself in all students.
If a teacher considers something important enough to be worth pointing out during a lesson, a student who considers it "interference" (thus judging that they know more than the teacher about what causes negative bad habits) should either be open minded enough to listen to their teacher or they should sack the teacher whose advice they consider an interference and go with their own authority outright.
That's not exactly what I wrote, but I completely understand that you feel threatened. It is completely normal to get defensive in situations like this. But it would really benefit you to learn to understand yourself better. I know how it is since I have experience with it too. Before I got older and had more life experience, I also was often unable to differentiate between ideas that I wanted to be true and those that could objectively be considered so.
"Whatever you have experienced you insist others must have experienced too"I have no idea what you think I might be threatened by. I'm just telling you straight up that what you have said is exactly the attitude I took when I made the least learning and when I was converging on a wall, with only very superficial progress. Deal with that information in whatever manner you wish but, given that I've had a lot more pianistic experience than yourself, it's probably not terribly sensible to pull an experience card. I got my experience through a variety of different mindsets (which I have constantly adapted both as student and teacher). If you reach diploma level through your narrow approach, by all means come back and pull the experience card once you're there.
I was not referring to pianistic experience at all, but experience in understanding human learning and behavior. That should have been clear from my post.
Well, I don't know what standard you are, but (seeing as you openly presume superiority to my own position) at the time I was playing the first movement of Rachmaninoff's 2nd concerto with orchestra. I was very lucky to have got that far, considering my attitude. If you honestly expect to handle things well enough to go further than I did via narrow mindedness, I wish you the best of luck.
PS if all your life experience tells you that you know more than your teacher about how to learn effectively, I'll look elsewhere for non pianistic guidance too.
I do not care for Rach so have no interest in playing his concerto. It is quite clear to me that when it comes to playing skills you are far superior to me. But I am curious: How many years have you spent learning the piano (altogether)? 15? 20? To even start comparing the results of our learning strategies, we must take into account the time spent and also the differences in our general physical abilities. A healthy able bodied young man is obviously better equipped to learn demanding works than someone much older who also suffers from muscular and skeletal disorders. Our goals must be very different. For me it never was about being able to play monstrous works, but to play pieces within my reach with the best quality possible.
Yes, my life experience (having spent all my life in my own body with my own brain) tells me that I know better than any teacher how I learn best. Which does not mean that I know better than my teacher what I should learn to do, what I should pay attention to and what I should achieve regarding specific challenges. My teacher is extremely demanding, nothing goes past her and we spend most of our lesson time going through small details. None of my other teachers has been like this and neither are any of the teachers of my adult friends who take lessons. I am extremely grateful to her that she has the persistence to keep giving me all these challenges and thus enable me to learn to play better, even though she could just let me play the way that feels easy no matter how poor the results.