As a guitar teacher, my role is to provide a safe and welcoming environment for students to learn and grow and my goal is to be a facilitator of learning, rather than simply telling students what I want them to know. It is important for learning to take place in such an environment so that students are not only free to be themselves but free to make mistakes. For students to learn, they must be involved in their own education and have a say in what they are learning and how they learn ...