Hito wa Kankyou no ko Nari…. People are the Children of their environments…

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This Painting from Suzuki Sensei means (in my translation) “People become the child of their environments” or as it is more often translated, “Man is the son of his environment”
This has been my shikishi forever. Every time I received a painting from Dr. Suzuki, it said that phrase out of the hundreds of quotes [...]

New Idea~!

Sit calmly in a comfortable chair….
Along with your students and parents ….
Be very still and quiet  and together gently listen to the wonderful tone of Fritz Kreisler on a DVD.   VERY good speakers are preferable (although whatever kinds of speakers are available will work- iPods won’t work for this unless they have speakers or [...]

Ideas from Cleo Brimhall – tension is the enemy of tone.

“Tension is the enemy of tone” ~ Cleo
In Three Areas -
These areas are :
1) Tension in the world – World Association of Suzuki Method (ISA and affiliates on down)  Tension between governments…
2) Tension in the Family Units (Grandparents, Parents, Children – teacher,  student, in the Educational Unit the teaching…  classroom or family whichever – tension [...]

Book 1 Practice Video Suzuki with CD (Matsumoto Tempo)

I am so amazed and honored!  SAA Published my article “Panda” in the Suzuki Journal!  Quite exciting!!!  Also a bit embarrassing as they published the old unedited version which is much longer that the one that appears here… (see Spring 2008 ASJ)  If anyone out there has corrections for my section involving anatomy and physiology [...]

Practice and study

I have been practicing everyday very hard towards the dvd I must make for Candidacy for SAA Teacher Trainer Status. I know that there are many teacher trainers who have something against me for some reason, (Japanese training?) but I must try despite the odds. It is supposed to be a fair process [...]

Wonderful Video of Violin Book 10 with Cadenza by Zino Francescatti

I just found this last night!!! In Dr. Suzuki’s Great Violinists Vol. 7 – there is a recording of Dr. Suzuki performing Frank Sonata (Real Audio – just a small clip) -

Anyway – Zino Francescatti was in Paris when Dr. Suzuki was in germany and he probably heard him… Has anyone [...]

Protected: Gavotte from “Mignon”

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25 hours of Videos of Dr. Suzuki from 1976

Translated
http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/Arts/subcollections/SuzukiAbout.shtml

One laptop per child

The concept of the $100 computer (laptop) been around since Douglas Coupland and Ray Kurzweil. That fiction is of course now a reality.
Nicholas Negroponte founder of the One laptop per child in classrooms has now accused Intel of selling its own discount laptop below cost to drive him out of markets.
Speaking to the BBC [...]

fascinating!

http://www.teachandlearn.ca/blog/2007/05/20/towards-a-personally-negotiated-understanding/