Teaching
As a jazz educationalist, Gerard was the Head of the Jazz Department at The Royal Academy of Music from 1999 until 2010 and is current Head of the Brass Department at The Jazz Institute,Berlin. He has given guest workshops in European Jazz Conservatories (including Amsterdam,Rotterdam,Copenhagen).
In 2012 he is continuing to write a book addressing the technical requirements of trumpet playing in improvised music.
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“The most important part of teaching = to teach what it is to know.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)
“If we focus exclusively on teaching our children to read, write, spell, and count in their first years of life, we turn our homes into extensions of school and turn bringing up a child into an exercise in curriculum development. We should be parents first and teachers of academic skills second.”
—Neil Kurshan (20th century)
“There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes place; he is you, and you are he; then is a teaching; and by no unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever lose the benefit.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)