THE PUPIL WHO KNOWS IT ALL.
Just why this particular young lady takes lessons no one is quite able to tell. If you were present at one of her lessons you would soon get the idea that she knows far more about musical instruction than her teacher. She indicates what pieces it pleases her youthful majesty to play and she never fails to let the teacher know that she intends to play them in her own particular way. Perhaps if the teacher were a little more assertive Miss Presumptuousness might lose some of her officiousness.
THE TEACHER WHO CAN DO TWO THINGS AT ONCE.
This teacher feels that a few minutes taken from the pupil's lesson to read a personal letter will not count for much. Furthermore, he deceives himself into thinking that the pupil is blind to his neglect. He does not realize that the pupil is paying for the best of his most concentrated brand of attention and that if he tries to pawn off some very much diluted interest he may be without a pupil at the end of the term. When you teach, teach, do nothing but teach and teach in the very best manner you know how.
