I get your point, but that's a terrible analogy. Music theory and the mechanics of piano are hugely complex. I can teach a kid to putter around and follow his friends in a Opti in 10 minutes. Shes now sailing. Then they learn 10x more the rest of the morning just watching other kids sailing and the instructors on the water with them. No way that happens with a piano.Obviously, it depends on the age as to how much a kid can, or will, absorb in a "lesson." Letting one go in say, a sabot, w/ little to no instruction of the basics means that they'll have to be rescued if not taught how to right the boat or even how to keep it from blowing over. Boats and kids will end up down wind and may or may not figure out how to get back up wind whence they started. (We have adults who still can't figure that out too well; I've seen some pretty pathetic stuff in that regard.) Analogy--a 30-min lesson on the piano or any musical instrument that starts explaining the basics is more productive than letting the kid bang the keys until figuring out how to play a four to five note piece from "memory."
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