Dec 26 2008
From my Google Reader: The 10 Key Components Of An Ideal Learning Environment And The Timba Music School Model
I have been following Robin Good’s excellent web 2.0 blog for a quite awhile now, and while the focus of his blog is not about music, this excellent post focuses on his experiences as a beginning (adult) music student at The Timba School of Music. Here is an excerpt from his post:
I am a beginning student at the Timba school having been there less than a year. Even in this short time I have had the opportunity to realize how special this learning environment is and what makes it so damn good.
…I think it is something that touches everyone’s life as we increasingly need to learn and adapt to new and more complex environments, but also because I am very much involved, in this publishing work that I do, in actually providing some of the resources needed to help others learn what I have discovered before them.
I feel we are nearing a time where less certifications and more tangible proofs of what you are good at are going to be the norm. Understanding that learning is not stuffing one’s own head with thousands of names and formulas is the key to have better and more intelligent people around.
And this is why I have chosen to feature the Timba Latin Jazz Quintet in this article today. The music school this quintet represents is a great example of how learning, no matter what the topic is about, should really be.
In this short article, I try to capture and list what I see as being the key characteristic of the Timba music school which make it such an ideal learning place.
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