Finally we all hate any and all
new ideas because they seem to imply that we, who have
held the old ideas, have been ignorant and stupid in so
doing. A new idea is an attack upon the vanity of
everyone who has been a partisan of the old ideas and
their established order.
Jennings, thoroughly human in thus closing his mind
to all ideas about his profession, was equally human in
that he had his mind and his senses opened full width
to ideas on how to make more money. If there had
been money in new ideas about teaching singing
Jennings would not have closed to them. But the money
was all in studying and learning how better to handle
the women--they were all women who came to him for
instruction. His common sense warned him at the outset
that the obviously easygoing teacher would not long
retain his pupils. On the other hand, he saw that the
really severe teacher would not retain his pupils, either.
Who were these pupils? In the first place, they were
all ignorant, for people who already know do not go
to school to learn.
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