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"Before a true relish of great musical compositions can become more general, we must, above all things, have better music masters.　The want of good teachers is properly the source of all musical evil. In order to maintain his own credit, the unskillful and himself ill-informed teacher must necessarily give his pupils a bad opinion of good works, because he might otherwise run the risk of being asked by his scholar to play them to him. Thus the pupil is obliged to spend his time, labor and money on useless jingle and in half a dozen years is perhaps not a step farther advanced in real musical knowledge than he was at the beginning.  With better instruction, he would not have wanted half the time, trouble, and money to be put into a way on which he may have safely advanced progressively to greater perfection all his life."