I found that amusing:
http://driving.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,12529-2025038,00.html

Jeremy Clarkson is a British automotive journalist. Heusiually writes very funny and sometimes provocative reviews.
the above is from an "opinion" column of his

One of the unfortunate truths that flies in the face of his theory, is that the modern day song is not going to 'sound like the record' which would probably frustrate the student ...
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Jeremy Clarkson is rude, arrogant, opinionated to the point of pig headedness-more or less everything I detest in a human being! ....And yet I like the man. I can't help it, he often infuriates me but more often than not, beneath all the macho posturing the man talks sense.

In this article for example he is exactly right in that Beethoven, Chopin, Mozart et al have no relevance with regard to firing up childrens imagination or enthusiasm for music and yet they are staples (mandatory) as part of the cuuriculum.

I have learned to appreciate a wide and varied spectrum of music including many of the classical composers above BUT only after exploring music for myself, starting with what interested me.

At school music was my least favourite lesson and often a chore, something to be avoided if at all possible. I know that most of my peers felt exactly the same way. Surely this is an indightment of the failings of educators. Make it relevant first, then when kids have a frame of reference they will start to appreciate variations on a theme.

Makes perfect sense to me!

best wishes
Tony

Hi Tony, I see you are English so you must know about Clarkson!
I agree with every word you wrote. He is also very racist in every sense, including comments like "Birmingham is a place abroad" and "Hyundai people eat dogs" but funny nonetheless and most of the time he has a point.
American readers won't be amused by the image he paints about American cars and the US in general