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ordinary and magnetic personality.
He used to shatter his pupils' il–
lusions, disturb their complacency
and send them on their way great–
ly changed people. The college has
believed in the peculiar efficacy of
music and art, and the teaching in
these fields has always been ar–
dently partisan, anti-academic,
iconoclastic and personal. A Bau–
haus man preaches a pasionate
evangel: art history is the bunk;
art criticism is gossip; the student
must learn to use the materials
himself, become himself "related"
to forms and colors; the Graeco–
Roman tradition is overra ted;
forget history, think of nothing but
form and color, and you will prefer
Byzantine, primitive and modern
work. The music teachers have
been equally enterprising: you are
more likely to hear Perotinus or
Schoenberg as you walk round the
campus than Tschaikovsky and
Chopin; there is little music "ap–
preciation," that unctuous monster;
ear-trammg and musical tech–
nique replace and surpass all that.
Black Mountain College has
done many remarkable things. It
has, so to speak, made the blind to
see and the deaf to hear. Students
there sometimes seem to grow in
front of your very eyes. Timid
spoilt children have turned into
lively, purposive people; obstreper–
ous spoilt children have turned
into controlled and disciplined peo–
ple. Graduating students have
sometimes surprised their exam–
iners-chosen from the faculty of
'regular' universities-not so much
by their erudition as by their keen
interest in their field. Some have
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