Fletcher's method is completely wrong

Rating: Null/10 (8 September 2015)

This story mainly focuses on the relationship between a gifted music student, Andrew and his master, Fletcher. It turns out that this master uses an absolutely wrong method to deal with his students. Fletcher behaves more as a sergeant whose role in barracks is to form brute soldiers using violence, intimidation and humiliation, instead of behaving as an educator whose mission is to encourage his students to strive for excellence. I believe that values as love, friendship, solidarity, cooperation, team spirit, respect, stimulation of the self-confidence are more important to stimulate someone to focus on the search of excellence than threats and humiliating critics which undermine the self- confidence. Who is humiliated use to have one of these two reactions: he becomes traumatized and flees the challenges, or develops e great hatred against who has humiliated him. I believe much more in the approach of Andrzej Kijowski in the story The Orchestra Conductor, directed by Andrzei Wajda, where the conductor succeeds to improve the quality of the musicians of the orchestra that he conducts, by improving their self-confidence and not their hatred.