The disobedient Khalifa and the piano (story told by Mathilde / piano teacher)

Khalifa (9 years old) is commonly known as a “disobedient” boy. He is tall for his age, strong like his father, who was also in the Education Center for years, and many other children are afraid of him and his unfortunately often violent way of solving problems. When he came to my piano room one day and said that he wanted lessons too, the other children immediately warned me: Khalifa has no concentration at all, he is just doing stupid things and he is disobedient. I, of course, ignored these warnings. And what can I say: Khalifa is very good in learning playing the piano, almost shy and he can sometimes concentrate for a whole hour … what music can do to people …