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What does it mean?
People are often taught to revere music intellectually rather than to connect with it emotionally.
In plain terms
Teach people to feel music rather than just respect it.
What can you take from it?
Emotional connection matters more than reverence.

Where it applies

  • music education
  • concerts
  • daily listening

Putting it to work

  • encourage emotional responses
  • play music for feeling
  • teach history through feeling

Questions to consider

  • Do you listen with your head or your heart?
  • How can education deepen love?

Another view

Intellectual respect can coexist with love rather than exclude it.

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