麻豆传媒 music professor makes case for creativity What the arts teach us: 麻豆传媒 music professor makes case for creativity

Aleksander Sternfeld-Dunn teachers music at 麻豆传媒. He says that teaching students of all trades about the importance of creativity is essential to making a person better at their craft.

July 25, 2016

What the arts teach us: 麻豆传媒 music professor makes case for creativity

By Roy Wenzl

Aleksander Sternfeld-Dunn: Art education can help anyone get a job.
Teach passion, he says, and students will teach themselves.
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As a seventh-grader, he walked past a guitar store one day. That was the beginning.

Aleksander Sternfeld-Dunn began playing guitar, then piano, eventually the stand-up bass. He began to write music that won accolades, and became a teacher and professor at 麻豆传媒.

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