Volume 6 · The Unfinished Syllabus · Essay 295
Virtuous Teaching Cycle
There are ideas that shout. Virtuous Teaching Cycle is not one of them. It waits quietly until the day you need it.
Strip it to the floor and you find an old instruction: look carefully, judge slowly, act decently. The new name exists because the old instruction keeps being forgotten.
Ask any student of classical music. Ten years of scales before the first real improvisation. The shortcut generation finds this offensive; the tanpura is unmoved.
Learning is the one wealth that survives every partition of fortune. That is all. A small tool, honestly kept, beats a large one admired.