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Topic: Teaching the Meat  (Read 1726 times)

Offline hardy_practice

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Teaching the Meat
on: December 20, 2015, 04:23:50 PM
We've no idea how even such a simple thing as guiding a fork full of food to our mouth is carried out let alone the complication of piano performance.   All we can do is present to the 'meat' the thing we want carried out - in the most appropriate way for its grasping.  Therein lies the art of learning.  Ultimately the 'meat' is the brains of the matter - if you can't speak its language, hard luck.
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Offline goldentone

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Re: Teaching the Meat
Reply #1 on: December 20, 2015, 08:03:21 PM
Interesting.  Maybe you could 'flesh out' your thoughts.
He was not of an age, but for all time.

Offline jazzyprof

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Re: Teaching the Meat
Reply #2 on: December 21, 2015, 04:33:56 PM
So what's a poor vegetarian to do?
"Playing the piano is my greatest joy, next to my wife; it is my most absorbing interest, next to my work." ...Charles Cooke

Offline briansaddleback

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Re: Teaching the Meat
Reply #3 on: December 21, 2015, 05:14:38 PM
So what's a poor vegetarian to do?
That's what you call an equivocation fallacy. Haha
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Re: Teaching the Meat
Reply #4 on: December 21, 2015, 06:36:01 PM
So what's a poor vegetarian to do?
be kind to not-so-dumb animals?
B Mus, PGCE, DipABRSM
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