“The fundamental issue to consider is how students learn, not how students are taught.”
— Edwin E. Gordon
Category: Words of Wisdom
Wednesday’s Words of Wisdom
“…IMITATION naturally leads to and interacts with AUDIATION just as TALKING naturally leads to and interacts with THOUGHT.”
— Edwin E. Gordon
Wednesday’s Words of Wisdom
“A few hundred years ago, audiation, not notation, was in the forefront of music education.”
—Edwin E. Gordon
Wednesday’s Words of Wisdom
“To understand what something is, it must be understood what it is not.”
–Edwin E. Gordon
Wednesday’s Words of Wisdom
“When taught to understand music, students learn music.”
–Edwin E. Gordon
Wednesday’s Words of Wisdom
“Audiation is to music what thought is to language.”
— Edwin E. Gordon
Read more here: What is Audiation, Exactly?
Wednesday’s Words of Wisdom
“Music Learning Theory is simply this:
What do you need to know in order to learn something else?”
–Edwin Gordon
Wednesday’s Words of Wisdom
“Just as speech developed before the written word, sound of music existed long before music notation was developed.”
—Edwin E. Gordon
Wednesday Words of Wisdom
“Music literacy involves more than being able to read and write music notation.”
–Edwin Gordon
Wednesday’s Words of Wisdom
“All learning begins with the ear, not the eye, and learning music, of course, is no exception.”
— Edwin Gordon
Wednesday’s Words of Wisdom
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
— Nelson Mandela
Wednesday Words of Wisdom
“The teacher is the compass that activates the magnets of curiosity, knowledge, and wisdom in the pupils.”
–Ever Garrison