The Suzuki method is based on the educational philosophy developed in Japan by Dr Shinichi Suzuki. In this method, children learn a musical instrument in the same way as they learn their mother tongue - through the creation of a supportive environment. When a child learns to speak, the following factors are at work:

Listening, Memory, Motivation, Vocabulary, Repetition, Parental Involvement, Imitation, Encouragement, Step-by-step mastery, Love.

In the Suzuki approach, each of these principles is used in the learning of an instrument.

The great secret of the Suzuki method is "doing". We learn to speak a language by speaking the language and being surrounded by it; we learn to drive by driving, not by reading a manual. Of course, the theories, the rules, the structures, are important; but they follow rather than precede action. Traditional instrumental teaching begins with theory - learning to read music. With Suzuki, the child hears then plays. Of course it's not
as simple as that, but it is based on the incontrovertible principle that we all learn best by doing. Suzuki believed that all children could make music and so do we.