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My spouse is also learning violin. Granted, dynamics vary from one family to the next, but still... you can't be her teacher. Likewise for parents of kids who are learning.

Imagine a code editor that, if it detects a syntax error, automatically erases the entire line, flashes some random pattern on the entire screen, and makes you start over.

It's brutal, because you're flooded with multiple concepts and difficult physical skills all at once, including tone production, intonation, reading, just hitting the right note instead of a wrong one, and so forth. Working on one thing may require blocking the other things out of your mind.

Learning a stringed instrument as an adult is very hard. I'm awed by anybody who can do it.

There's a great electric bass teacher named Jeff Berlin, who has also written about teaching, and he mentioned that he doesn't stop his students when they make mistakes, because correcting mistakes is something they can figure out on their own.