Pearls Before Breakfast - washingtonpost.com

I picked up on this article by Gene Weingarten while reading a blog on Hotchalk today. A teacher wrote quite a response there. It’s a wonderful article and you should take the few minutes out of your life to read it. It just might change a thing or two in your own practice. It was published in 2007, but it could have happened yesterday, anywhere.

At the very least, read down through this part:
"There was no ethnic or demographic pattern to distinguish the people who stayed to watch Bell, or the ones who gave money, from that vast majority who hurried on past, unheeding. Whites, blacks and Asians, young and old, men and women, were represented in all three groups. But the behavior of one demographic remained absolutely consistent. Every single time a child walked past, he or she tried to stop and watch. And every single time, a parent scooted the kid away."

Think about it: How did you stop someone from learning today?

Here's the article, complete with video clips of what happened when the world-renowned violinist, Joshua Bell, chose to play his $3.5 million Stradivari in the Subway while Washingtonians hurried to work one September morning.
Pearls Before Breakfast - washingtonpost.com