Status Updates From Never Too Late: My Musical ...

"(...) the students weren't learning what I was trying to teach them, mostly because they were convinced they couldn't. I had tried to convince them that they weren't stupid, with no success at all. So I thought that maybe if I could work with younger children, and catch them before they had begun to think of themselves as stupid, I might be able to keep them from learning to think that way."

"It is not our proper business as teachers, certainly not music teachers, to make decisions and judgements about what people are or are not "capable" of doing. It is our proper business, above all in music, to try to find ways to help people do what they want to do."

The beginning was not very exciting, but about 1/3 into the book, I am now won over and remembering why I loved Holt's writing so much when I first heard about homeschooling and unschooling, many years ago.
"In music, as in math, or reading, or writing, what tests test, and all they can test, is the ability to take tests, and above all, to overcome the anxiety that all of us feel when we are being judged and tested."