In music you learn more in a week from a sympathetic teacher,
or at least from some one who is so to you, than from another,
however excellent, in a month. You will make no progress if he
can give you no impulse.
What a mystery lies in that word “teaching!” One will constrain
you irresistibly, and another shall not be able to persuade
you. One will kindle you with an ambition that aspires to what
the day before seemed inaccessible heights, while another
will labor in vain to stir your sluggish mood to cope with
the smallest obstacle. The reciprocal relation is too often
forgotten.--R. H. HAWEIS.
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