If you put a violin in a child’s hands, that child will never hold a gun

[MikeLigalig.com]

El Sistema Comes to the USA: Playing the Mambo and Other Transformations By Jamie Bernstein

“El Sistema’s founder, the visionary musician and economist Jose Antonio Abreu, has said, ‘If you put a violin in a child’s hands, that child will never hold a gun.’ It is a profound idea … And now this idea is spreading around the world”

[islander]

this is a claim music students live by.  i believe it.  i was no longer a child when i started to hold a violin, but what i can say now is i even hate the mere sight of guns.  i hope never to have any urgent use for a gun, ever.

meanwhile, does it follow that if you put a gun in a child's hand, that child will never hold a violin?

[hubag bohol]

The world loathes extremists; compromise is the name of the game.

[islander]

indeed, you are not addressed as your excellency for nothing.

please, where's the bow?  or is the bow the bullet?

[Pikoy]

The world loathes extremists; compromise is the name of the game.

mau naman ni ang gidala ni ZORRO karong panahuna, kay niasinso naman sija..