T. Carl Whitmer’s idea holds for all teachers, not only those of music.
Not long ago a woman told me that her whole musical sense had been paralyzed by the fact that as a young girl she had been sent to a deserving widow for lessons instead of to a good teacher. This is quite a common experience; only not all the victims, unfortunately, become so conscious of the lack as this one. And that is another point: the awful deadening of thought resulting from uneducational methods.
If parents would remember that upon the first lessons rests nearly everything, the sending of impressionable minds to teachers without a standard of educational value would cease. And how it would weed out the teachers!
A music teacher must stand up for what is good always, a parent will see that such a teacher is secured.
(Quoted from page 130 of The Way of My Mind, by T. Carl Whitmer. Pierpont, Siviter & Co., 1917.)
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