On pages 38-9 Henry tells Will that Ben was one of the most gifted piano students Kearney ever had.
Will asks how Ben got that way. Henry says Ben's teacher, Wenger, was very abusive: "Wenger insisted all his students wash their hands before playing. He's merciless to his students. He belittles them constantly. Tries to make them so mad they'll play better." [p. 38]
Will asks him, "You didn't teach that way, did you?" Henry shrugs and says some students thrive on it. "Wenger's had some great ones," Henry says. Will says he can't even imagine Ben's demons.
[Not hard to believe; Will can't even imagine his own]
Finally, Will says, "I know why he keeps his gloves on." [p.39]
We should consider these gloves a little bit next time.
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Friday, March 27, 2009
Henry on Teaching
Labels:
Ben's Character,
Demons,
Gloves,
Teaching Methods,
Wenger
Synopsis:
Author Profile:
Tim was a market and survey research consultant from 1983 to 2000 and a smoking cessation researcher from 2000 to 2003. His consulting practice focused primarily on conducting community health needs assessment. He authored hundreds of market research reports and published a number of his assessments in Community Health Needs Assessment published by McGraw Hill in 1996 and in a revised volume published in 1999. In 2000 he joined the staff of the Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention of the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he conducted smoking cessation research. He published several articles in peer-reviewed journals and spoke at national smoking cessation conferences.
In 2003 he moved to Philadelphia and earned his real estate license. He now practices real estate, works on publishing his novels, and studies and teaches entrepreneurship.Tim has written a dozen novel-length stories, a volume of short stories, and about a 3-foot stack of pages poetry. He is currently working on earning his 4th million in real estate sales, publishing his novels, and working on an entrepreneurish handbook as a support for his students.
Tim is a trained violist and an experienced string quartet player. He is an avid listener to classical music and regularly attends classical music concerts. He has two grown children by his first wife and a stepdaughter with his second wife. He likes to cook, read, write, entertain, develop relationships, and help other people. Formerly Tim used to travel frequently. He doesn't so much anymore. Now he regards the combination of real estate practice, writing and publishing, and the teaching and studying of entrepreneurship as enough of a trip.