10,000 TIMES
Jun
28
EVERY CHILD CAN BE EDUCATED
Malcom Gladwell, in his book OUTLIERS, suggests that Bill Gates and Steve Jobs repeated the skills they loved enough to put in 10,000 hours related to computers.
Twenty hours a week of practice is one thousand hours a year. That is why Dr. Suzuki started children at the age of 3 to start practicing the violin as he developed his method of education. He said, “That way, children can get in the ten years before they get busy with high school studies.”
A three-year-old does not start with three hours of playing the instrument every day. It is just as important to develop an attitude of accomplishment - listening to the music recordings for where one is aiming; parents have to organize their lives to include even 15 minutes a day of practice and going to lessons.
In 1967 Mihoko Yamaguchi came from Matsumoto, Japan, to help Sister Annella develop Seattle’s first Suzuki School of Music at Holy Names Academy.
