Surface Methods Versus Unchanging Values
1933; Volume: 19; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/3384395
ISSN2329-0803
Autores Tópico(s)Diverse Music Education Insights
Resumomovements and institutions become the target for more or less vituperative criticism, insofar as they may affect the economic situation, education could not hope to escape entirely unscathed. We have seen our teaching profession receive more newspaper publicity in the form of editorial comment and criticism during the last two years than in any other ten years, and this criticism has involved the discussion of educational policies as well as the financial aspects. While many of the criticisms and commentaries may seem wholly unjustifiable, nevertheless, we shall have to admit that certain salutary results may follow the close scrutiny that education is now receiving. But even though we may feel that this present slough of despond is passing, might it not be well to pause here at the low point of the ebb tide, to take account of stock, to give ourselves the same close scrutiny that our critics have been giving us-to consider what we might have done had we been called to the defensive for our very professional life. Particularly should such an appraisal be of vital interest to music teachers, for, at the present time, the general music profession is standing with its back to the wall and the wall that has so far
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