A book is simply the container of an idea like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.
The countries who do the best in international comparisons, whether it's Finland or Japan, Denmark or Singapore, do well because they have professional teachers who are respected, and they also have family and community which support learning.
If you approach an opera as though it were something that always went a certain way, that's what you get. I approach an opera as though I didn't know it.

