The Worth of a Challenge


If you give a child a fish, you feed him for a day.
If you teach a child to fish, you feed him for a lifetime.
But if you teach a child to learn, you feed him for a lifetime
and he doesn't have to just eat fish.

Showing posts with label college stuff. Show all posts
Showing posts with label college stuff. Show all posts

Thursday, November 19, 2009

getting started....

This Mommy is going to college! 

So I am super excited to say that I am now going to publish both mine and Jacob's progress through school.
I know there are going to be lots of questions so lets see if I can answer some of them

  • Why am I going to college? Well for those of you who don't know I have been giving some free piano lessons on the side and have since realized I was doing an awesome job at it. I then thought to my self..."do I need a certificate or liscence to teach these kids?" 
  • Why a music/art degree? and What are you going to do with the music degree? I decided on getting a music and art because I can then be accredited to teach children art and music (and list my self in good conscience that I am indeed qualified to teach art and music)
  • So what started all of this? On wednesdays, Jacob's school lets out early and have half a day off. I thought there would be no sense in losing half a day. So I dreamed up some ideas to fill the time. The first one was learning a foreign language(which has been fun but slow going) and the other was to learn piano. I had no real formal training in piano but had some experience in music. So I got the Faber Primer books and talked to the guy at the music store and length and he seemed to think I (and Jacob) will be just fine on our own. Some how I ended up with more kids(whom I teach at no charge) and that is when I wondered if I needed to be "qualified"
So I am super excited. I know there will be ups and downs but I am sure that in the future as I receive my degree I will look back and see how worthwhile this was.