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Helen Brunner sounds like an inspiration, just as S. Suzuki must have been. It is now our turn, as violin teachers, to pass that inspiration on to others. One of my current students is an adult who is returning to the violin after years of busying herself with other things. As a child, she had one group lesson with Dr. Suzuki, who told her that she had a "very good bow hold." Now I am another link in the chain that Dr. Suzuki started.

You said, making children fluent in something beautiful, something with higher meaning, so that they could draw on it for the rest of their lives. He truly, and profoundly, believed that music could save us all, could help us learn peace and you expressed it so well.

great story

50% discount... that made me laugh, thanks for that

Such a fantastically delicious story you have! What's all the question marks though? For those of you who, like me, have not been trained in Suzuki pedagogy, I highly recommend the book "The Suzuki Violinist" by William Starr, one of Suzuki's disciples. It is easy to read and conveys the sirit, as well as the techniques, of Suzuki-ism. It reaffirms faith in the capabilities of every student.