![]() ![]() ![]() Students were required to write a letter that began with “Dear Mr. This didn’t mean students could slack off for the rest of the semester. The A was not intended as a way to measure someone’s performance against standards, but as an instrument to open them up to new possibilities. They decided the best approach would be to give everyone an A, at the beginning of the course. One night, he sat down with his partner Roz Stone Zander, a therapist, to try to find a solution. He was faced with the same problem every year for 25 years: Teaching students who were in such a chronic state of anxiety over the measurement of their performance, they were reluctant to take creative risks. ![]() Ben Zander is a conductor for the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, and professor at the New England Conservatory of Music. ![]()
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