Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: serious career question


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Posted by Kenneth Sloan on February 09, 2004 at 00:33:09:

In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: Re: serious career question posted by Attn: DAVE ZERKEL ! on February 08, 2004 at 23:45:06:

"We have a college professor that strongly defends the age-old

'Those who can't, teach'

philosophy here."

BZZZT - thanks for playing, but WRONG. Not what I said, and not what I think.
One might as well argue "those who can't play timpani, play tuba".


"'Orchestra musicians do not need to write papers, lecture students, or administer an academic department."

except (as previously stated) in some of the top big-city conservatories, and many colleges and universities in medium-large cities."

Orchestra musicians who hold appointments as professors in colleges and universities need to do both, because they are doing both jobs! The point remains that a performing musician (who does that and only that) does not NEED the skills that are absolutely required of an academic. And vice versa.

Says nothing about FAILURE forcing one or the other to pick another profession.

Why, precisely, do you feel the need to concentrate on negatives rather than positives?

Besides, the motto is, of course, "Those who can't teach, do" (for extra credit, find all 4 meanings of this epigram)


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