发觉自己一下子写完好像很痛苦，看这里这么冷清，先贴一部分上来。。。因为读的是英文的，所以写的时候也变英文了。不过俺语文想来不够好，大家凑合着读吧。。。欢迎质疑提问。

Shinichi Suzuki: Nurtured by Love-The classic Approach to Talent Education

Shinichi Suzuki is a music educator. After reading his philosophy and this book, I admire him, respect him and I learnt the essence of education from him.

Suzuki’s book　Nurtured by love was written in Japanese and translated into English by his wife.　 He was born in 1898. His father had a violin factory and he is the eldest child in the family. However, his father did not like him to learn the violin, and only when he was 17 years old, he started studying the violin and went to Germany to learn from the finest violinists of the world.

Here, I would like to share a few points I thought are most important in his book.

The philosophy:

<!--[if !supportLists]-->1)　 　 　1) 　<!--[endif]-->The most important thing is to Nurture a NOBLE man, Dr Suzuki's guiding principle was "Character first, ability second". He thought that man’s ultimate direction in life is to look for love, truth, virtue and beauty. Teaching music is not my main purpose. I want to make good citizens, noble human beings.

<!--[if !supportLists]-->2)　 　 2) 　　<!--[endif]-->Love is the most important essence in the education. He believed that and happiness and enjoyment of life and music are most important for children. What the educator needs to do is to embrace the children with love. “Where love is deep, much will be accomplished."

How to nurture children? What are the principles of nurture?

Children are the fruit of training and environment. Every child is talented. Talent is not inherited. To surrender to the thought of having no talent and give up the effort is COWARDLY.

"I have no doubt that people are born with hereditary physiological differences, but I believe that a person's abilities grow and develop depending on the stimulation from outside." 　However, he also believed that “"any child can become superior, and my confidence has never been betrayed."

<!--[if !supportLists]-->a)　　　　　<!--[endif]-->Learning music is like learning a language.

Dr Suzuki gave a few examples. First, All Japanese children speak Japanese. They just learn from listening. And if a Tokyo boy of 6 years old moved to Osaka, he could quickly acquire the Osaka accent. We have not known any human who could not speak their mother tongue language. However, if a human being is raised in another totally different environment, e.g. raised by wolf until she/he had pass the stage of learning a language,　 he might totally lost his ability to speak. 　In animals’ world, the first month in a nightingale’s life determines its fate. If they were taken from the nest of wild birds, and listening to “Master bird”-a good teacher everyday, the infant birds will, through physiological transformation, learn from experience to produce tones as beautiful as those of it teacher. However, if they remained in the wild environment, there is always a failure. Dr Suzuki also wrote, If Einstein, Goethe and Beethoven had been born during the Stone Age, wouldn’t they likewise have only the cultural ability and education of men of the stone age?

"Musical ability is not an inborn talent but an ability which can be developed. Any child who is properly trained can develop musical ability just as all children develop the ability to speak their mother tongue. The potential of every child is unlimited".

<!--[if !supportLists]-->b)　　　　　<!--[endif]-->Repetition is the key word in learning language. So does music.　 But music is also a language that goes beyond speech and letters. 　“If a child hears fine music from the day of his birth, and learns to play it himself, he develops sensitivity, discipline and endurance. He gets beautiful heart." If children surrounded by out of tune pitches, 　they then also become tone-deaf.

“This is where its emotional impact comes in. Bach, Mozart, Beethoven - without exception they live clearly and palpably in their music, and speak forcefully to us, purifying us, refining us, and awakening in us the highest joy and emotion."