Although we cannot find the final answer to who we are all at once. we
can set out discover who we are and grow into the habit of asking continually,
"Is this perspective may seem very self centered
and hedonistic. How could such a question he at the root of music education? My answer is that until we set out to find out who we are, we cannot
help our students begin to discover who they really are. I speak of a way of
being. When we are true to ourselves. we are honest and transparent to
our students. What we say accords with what we do. This transparency is