Nurture Musical Talent as You Would Care for a New Garden

The modern world of high speed internet, microwaveparents expect overnight results. This perception of
ovens, fast cars, and Television creates expectationslearning is based on what C. Wright Mills calls a
of instant results that are neither realistic norSociological Imagination, or what I call a shared illusion
sustainable when it comes to learning a difficultabout reality, learned mainly from TV and the movies.
instrument such as the piano. Children and sometimes