Nurture Musical Talent as You Would Care for a New Garden
| The modern world of high speed internet, microwave | parents expect overnight results. This perception of | |||
| ovens, fast cars, and Television creates expectations | learning is based on what C. Wright Mills calls a | |||
| of instant results that are neither realistic nor | Sociological Imagination, or what I call a shared illusion | |||
| sustainable when it comes to learning a difficult | about reality, learned mainly from TV and the movies. | |||
| instrument such as the piano. Children and sometimes |