""who should be there to guide me but the same teacher i had,a true Master in every way! "" ...and an Old Master, as well
My experience with teachers parallels Kirk's in every way, although four years earlier, in Australia, and with the difference that over the last almost four decades, whilst teaching literally thousands of people to play guitar, I have owned and run four Music Studios, all of them thriving busnesses except one where I employed a highly qualified Classical teacher, similar to the dragons that Kirk and I encountered, and within six months she had run the busnisses into the ground.
No degree of blinkered, play-by-numbers grade exams and diplomas can ever match interpersonal skills, the ability to play and teach multiple styles, talant and a love for what you do.