When you learn about the teaching and the practice of another tradition, you always have a chance to understand your own teaching and practice.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process.
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal knowledge of national, regional, religious, ethnic, occupational, and family folklore traditions.
You stay teachable most by reading books. By reading what other people went through.
I'm very much a traditionalist, but I think it's important to know about tradition so that you can evolve the music you are deciding to make.
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
I see it as a responsibility of mine to teach others.
If you learn something new every day, you can teach something new every day.
Whatever your religious tradition is, if it's important to you and you don't feel comfortable talking about it, you end up coming across as insincere.
When you learn something from people, or from a culture, you accept it as a gift, and it is your lifelong commitment to preserve it and build on it.