http://www.formerlyhot.com/2010/07/why-we-need-more-scientists/ The tween site for adults Wed, 23 May 2012 09:46:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 http://www.formerlyhot.com/2010/07/why-we-need-more-scientists/comment-page-1/#comment-3442 Cynthia Sun, 11 Jul 2010 21:34:05 +0000 http://www.formerlyhot.com/?p=2032#comment-3442 This part of the world also doesn't take the arts all that seriously. Growing up, the vast majority of students my piano teacher had were first or second generation Canadians, almost all of East Asian (generally Chinese or Korean) or Eastern European descent. Very few of my Jewish or WASP peers who were generally third generation+ took private music lessons, even if they had money. Most touched a musical instrument for the first time in middle school when instrumental music was introduced to the school program. I picked up a new instrument then too, but it was really frustrating to have to "learn" how to read music when you already were well ahead of everyone else! This part of the world also doesn’t take the arts all that seriously. Growing up, the vast majority of students my piano teacher had were first or second generation Canadians, almost all of East Asian (generally Chinese or Korean) or Eastern European descent. Very few of my Jewish or WASP peers who were generally third generation+ took private music lessons, even if they had money. Most touched a musical instrument for the first time in middle school when instrumental music was introduced to the school program. I picked up a new instrument then too, but it was really frustrating to have to “learn” how to read music when you already were well ahead of everyone else!

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