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Youtube Replacing Teachers?

2013 October 25
by Mike Vial

I told some friends that I was teaching myself piano, and seeking some piano players to offer me a lesson or two. My friend said, “Just use Youtube! You don’t need a teacher.”

This sentence captivates the current misconception about education. We mistake supplemental guides for a replacement of teachers.

At age 19, I was taking guitar lessons with a WMU music major, and my teacher asked, “Do you know about inversions?” I had never heard this musical concept before he asked me.  Once he taught it to me in five minutes, it changed my entire playing!

Which leads us to the problem of only using Youtube videos to learn: How would I know how to teach myself this concept if I didn’t know the concept exists?

What a teacher does for a student is offer a guided curriculum, a pathway to success. A teacher opens up doors to new concepts that one might not ever realize on their own.

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