Dear Liz,
I was once asked why I could sight read a piece of music but
couldn't remember it to play from memory and I said I didn't
know. However my music teacher said that it was probably because I
matched the pattern of the notes on the stave to a memory of how my
hands felt when I played.
Dear Ilske, et al,
All children are different, yet boys are often more like other boys than they
are like girls. If we recognize that each child is an individual, it helps.
But generalities can also help. The skills we can say lacemaking helps with
are often those encouraged more in boys than
I was once asked why I could sight read a piece of music but couldn't remember
it to play from memory and I said I didn't know. However my music teacher said
that it was probably because I matched the pattern of the notes on the stave to
a memory of how my hands felt when I played. Whereas a p
ery's observation
is interesting, but that's a really small sample size from which to draw any
conclusions.
Nancy
Connecticut, USA
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From: Margery Allcock
>To: 'Lace Arachne'
>Sent: Monday, July 8, 2013 10:01 AM
>Subject: RE: [la
Tess wrote:
> As for boys and lacemaking, my experience is that they take
> to it more readily than do girls, at first anyway. There are
> lots of reasons for that, but among them might be their
> immediately logical way of thinking and their ability to
> focus more single-mindedly.
While I wa
As usual, I am behind, but I want to show you my point of view. I think I am
partly mathematical/scientific and partly artistic. I liked math. in school but
I liked music (which has lots of mathematical elements) and art and handicrafts
as well. It was a big problem to decide which what I wanted
