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Keys to higher learning

Thank you for this link Xavier.  I have read similar articles and I agree
whole heartedly.
In these days of Political Correctness I guess I can't say the race.  Heard
from a piano teacher that a certain race of people have their kids take
piano lessons not because they want them to grow up to be pianists (they
have higher expectations for children), but because they want their brains
trained in this way.

I can't remember where I read this, but math was the one subject which Glenn
Gould enjoyed.

The call for "all boffins".  I am not in a league with Xavier.  I have
taught remedial math for many years.

James

From: Xavier Otazu <xotazu@AM.UB.ES>
Reply-To: Xavier Otazu <xotazu@AM.UB.ES>
To: F_MINOR@EMAIL.RUTGERS.EDU
Subject: Re: calling all boffins
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 12:30:43 +0200

Take a look at:

http://www.ptg.org/keys.htm

        Appart from this deterministic point of view explained through
neural brain connections, perhaps it is due to the combination of 'strict'
rules in music like rithm, tempo, harmonic laws, polyphonic voices,
tempered instruments, etc., with some free issues as phrasing, rubato,
articulation, feeling, etc. ... I guess ...

        Perhaps is the way to escape a bit (but not at all) from the
strict rules of science and at the same time approaching the free world of
feelings and art.

Cheers

Xavier (an astronomer working on computer vision, and a lover of Gould and
Bach)






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