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Suzuki - The Man and His Dream to Teach the Children of the World (Hardcover)
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Suzuki - The Man and His Dream to Teach the Children of the World (Hardcover)
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A New Yorker Best Book of the Year The remarkable life of violinist
and teacher Shinichi Suzuki, who pioneered an innovative but
often-misunderstood philosophy of early childhood education-now
known the world over as the Suzuki Method. The name Shinichi Suzuki
is synonymous with early childhood musical education. By the time
of his death in 1998, countless children around the world had been
taught using his methods, with many more to follow. Yet Suzuki's
life and the evolution of his educational vision remain largely
unexplored. A committed humanist, he was less interested in musical
genius than in imparting to young people the skills and confidence
to learn. Eri Hotta details Suzuki's unconventional musical
development and the emergence of his philosophy. She follows Suzuki
from his youth working in his father's Nagoya violin factory to his
studies in interwar Berlin, the beginnings of his teaching career
in 1930s Tokyo, and the steady flourishing of his practice at home
and abroad after the Second World War. As Hotta shows, Suzuki's aim
was never to turn out disciplined prodigies but rather to create a
world where all children have the chance to develop, musically and
otherwise. Undergirding his pedagogy was an unflagging belief that
talent, far from being an inborn quality, is cultivated through
education. Moreover, Suzuki's approach debunked myths of musical
nationalism in the West, where many doubted that Asian performers
could communicate the spirit of classical music rooted in Europe.
Suzuki touched the world through a pedagogy founded on the
conviction that all children possess tremendous capacity to learn.
His story offers not only a fresh perspective on early childhood
education but also a gateway to the fraught history of musical
border-drawing and to the makings of a globally influential life in
Japan's tumultuous twentieth century.
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