if you want to study you have to pay, it happens everywhere.
No one disputes taxation, they dispute the "theatrics". If a system is closed... it means it is closed. If it were open, one could make other types of calculations, given that every year is the last....they should decide. That way one can evaluate what to do.
If one cannot evaluate, or if every time every estimate is invalidated by an exemption, then one's own life is impacted.
Whoever already had an average completion in 2011...with these 2 exemptions (2012 and 2013), could have finished their studies...but in the uncertainty and in the last-minute rule, one had to change course.
Backspace, I understand the "breakdown" and the confusion; it just seemed excessive to me to speak of all this as "playing with people's lives." Unfortunately, for many years we have all been forced to inform ourselves very well before doing anything, and not just within the scope of studies. In a somewhat cynical way, I am almost happy about all this. Such a crazy situation forces everyone to weigh their choices very carefully, and perhaps the moment may truly arrive when people will really care about where they enroll, what they study, and what they want for their own future.
The attitude of musicians towards the conservatory that I do not like, however, is perhaps what can be drawn from this message from Chopin
Chopin wrote:
But Thallo... for a correct comparison regarding the elapsed time, you also have to count pre-academics or high school
So far from 5, you easily reach 10 if you start from 0
Then one would need to understand how much a pre-academic course or a high school costs compared to the old traditional course... already retired, but perhaps not to read this topic
I do not appreciate the confusion—the idea, that is, that first it is said that the old system no longer exists and then on the website of one of the largest Italian conservatories, that module we commented on pops up. But the idea that the old system is BETTER than the new one, given that with the old one you didn't have to be a graduate and could lack basic musical preparation, seems out of this world to me.
I am enthusiastic that today conservatory graduates must have mandatoryly completed a high school path. To think that a music high school is an added expense for musical study paths, compared to the old system, is crazy. It still seems absurd to me that there are so many places in the conservatory and so few places in music high schools; logic would dictate that the opposite should be true, but we must always remember that higher education, in Italy, is not free. Going to the conservatory is not a right, and it has been said several times on the pages of this forum that the Italian problem is not so much higher education but basic education. This situation has always been this way; if today you spend money to enroll in pre-academic courses, once you used to spend much more to go to private lessons (something I imagine no one can avoid even now).
In my opinion, one chooses a path also because they are interested in its content, and the new academic courses are particularly rich in in-depth studies. I am not saying it is better for an instrumentalist, but certainly better for a musician.
Today, it is unthinkable for a musician to have only a middle school education; don't blame me, but until a century ago, musicians were very cultured people, look at Schumann and other illustrious figures.
Therefore, a little culture has never killed anyone; if there are 30 exams over three years... well, it will mean that we will be better prepared or at least we will have the opportunity to learn more things. Does this seem like too little to you?
