Timothy, I have a certificate from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle, Washington. I studied with these people for a week all expense paid training period for public libraries who received grants for computers and systems that Bill donated across America. I was 50 and most of the men and women employed by Bill were older than me. They had white hair in some cases. Now there were younger people who gave us training and presentations on how to use and teach the applications and how to become systems administrators, but the people who were actually running the systems were the older crowd. Apparently 37 is quite young in Gates organization. This kind of thing requires lifelong learning and the curiosity of a cat. In fact the younger employees appeared to consult the older employees as reference.
I agree with you regarding how to get through formal education with professors or teachers. Your objective is to figure out what that particular teacher wants. Then give it to them.
The real world work environment is much different.
Actually music does exist between space and time. I tried to go Dmitiri's URL but it is serviced by a MAC OS X server so I couldn't access it. I did download a file at a similar site using a PC server and opened it with Windows Media Player. It was supposed to be the Chopin. The problem is the visualisation looks just like the typical ones that display themselves during a typical audio tracks play. I was not impressed. That is not a new discovery. I have devised geometric shapes to represent scales and intervals for years. I use them when I practice playing cycles, like the tune Giant Steps by Coltrane. There is a close connection between Geometry and Music. No Bull!
This is a clever comment. This sort of reminds me of our current president in this country. I never thought that things would come to this. John Quincy Adams was a real man on his own. He made a fine president. Unfortunately these baby boomer/generation x boys are not turning out as well in some cases.
I was born in 1950 and used to love to watch Mr Wizard on black and white TV. I bought my first chemistry set in 1964 because of him. I used to teach piano lessons to neighborhood kids at $1.50 a crack. I had lots of students because I could play by ear so well. I played all of the popular tunes at that time, and lived in an English Basement right on the corner of 11th Avenue and Harrison Blvd. which was a very busy city intersection. Kids could hear me playing or practicing when I was a kid. I bought my own 10 speed Schwin racing bicycle, which was a 27" boys bike in "candy gold" color. I bought a Zenith "Circle of Sound" stereo record player with those cool speakers that threw the sound up and then it was dispersed by the lid in a 360 degree range. When I finally got to high school chemistry, I had talking to girls on my mind and missed a wonderful opportunity to develop my skills in Chemistry, even-though my chemistry teacher was actually a math teacher who had seniority and was moved over in to chemistry over a real chemistry teacher who had less seniority.
When I got to college at Indiana University I got to take both Chemistry and Physics and did well in them during my undergrad years.
I became a public school teacher and retired after twenty-years. I can tell you from experience that the best teacher is the teacher who plants a seed in his students, and inspires them to learn on their own. Mr Wizard was that kind of teacher!
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Timothy, I have a certificate from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle, Washington. I studied with these people for a week all expense paid training period for public libraries who received grants for computers and systems that Bill donated across America. I was 50 and most of the men and women employed by Bill were older than me. They had white hair in some cases. Now there were younger people who gave us training and presentations on how to use and teach the applications and how to become systems administrators, but the people who were actually running the systems were the older crowd. Apparently 37 is quite young in Gates organization. This kind of thing requires lifelong learning and the curiosity of a cat. In fact the younger employees appeared to consult the older employees as reference.
I agree with you regarding how to get through formal education with professors or teachers. Your objective is to figure out what that particular teacher wants. Then give it to them. The real world work environment is much different.
Actually music does exist between space and time. I tried to go Dmitiri's URL but it is serviced by a MAC OS X server so I couldn't access it. I did download a file at a similar site using a PC server and opened it with Windows Media Player. It was supposed to be the Chopin. The problem is the visualisation looks just like the typical ones that display themselves during a typical audio tracks play. I was not impressed. That is not a new discovery. I have devised geometric shapes to represent scales and intervals for years. I use them when I practice playing cycles, like the tune Giant Steps by Coltrane. There is a close connection between Geometry and Music. No Bull!
This is a clever comment. This sort of reminds me of our current president in this country. I never thought that things would come to this. John Quincy Adams was a real man on his own. He made a fine president. Unfortunately these baby boomer/generation x boys are not turning out as well in some cases.
Bill has enough money to buy Nigeria, however it would be a bad investment.
I was born in 1950 and used to love to watch Mr Wizard on black and white TV. I bought my first chemistry set in 1964 because of him. I used to teach piano lessons to neighborhood kids at $1.50 a crack. I had lots of students because I could play by ear so well. I played all of the popular tunes at that time, and lived in an English Basement right on the corner of 11th Avenue and Harrison Blvd. which was a very busy city intersection. Kids could hear me playing or practicing when I was a kid. I bought my own 10 speed Schwin racing bicycle, which was a 27" boys bike in "candy gold" color. I bought a Zenith "Circle of Sound" stereo record player with those cool speakers that threw the sound up and then it was dispersed by the lid in a 360 degree range. When I finally got to high school chemistry, I had talking to girls on my mind and missed a wonderful opportunity to develop my skills in Chemistry, even-though my chemistry teacher was actually a math teacher who had seniority and was moved over in to chemistry over a real chemistry teacher who had less seniority. When I got to college at Indiana University I got to take both Chemistry and Physics and did well in them during my undergrad years. I became a public school teacher and retired after twenty-years. I can tell you from experience that the best teacher is the teacher who plants a seed in his students, and inspires them to learn on their own. Mr Wizard was that kind of teacher!