“Oh – why, Japanese children can all speak Japanese! The thought suddenly struck me with amazement. In fact, all children throughout the world speak their native tongues with the utmost fluency. Any and every Japanese child – all speak Japanese without difficulty. Does that not show a startling talent? How, by what means, does this come about? I had to control an impulse to shout my joy over this discovery.”
“Planting the seed of ability: a seed needs time and stimulation.”
“Just when you think it is useless, despair, and want to give up, you are finally rewarded with some results.”
“With patience and repetition, the seed blossoms: once a shoot comes out into the open, it grows faster and faster.”
Shinichi Suzuki, Nurtured by Love
Nurtured by Love at Amazon.com.
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That third one applies quite well to child-rearing.
Yes, exactly! He was talking about children learning. The day I heard that Shinichi Suzuki had died, I cried and cried. I felt that I knew him from reading his books
We started with the Suzuki method after Dr Suzuki had died, so I didn’t have that experience, but at the opening ceremony of the Suzuki world convention in Turin, with a big photo of Dr Suzuki above the stage, and one of his first pupils, Koji Toyoda, speaking to parents and children from 28 nations about the common language of music, I admit that I cried too.