am a pianist and music teacher. I started teaching in 2014 immediately after finishing a hard and stimulating period of my musical studies in Moscow. The enthusiasm for my achievements and the passion for music and arts that my teachers gave me, made me a passionate and energetic mentor for my pupils. By the other side, I noticed soon that being a teacher is harder than we imagine when we are students: we face everyday several pupils who have different ways of understanding, who come from particular family situations, who have special needs, sometimes disabilities, so we need to study and learn this situations as much as our main subject. Personally, I found out that I can work better if I constantly remember that I was a student as well, before becoming a teacher. And I am still a student now, because I never stop growing and learning. For a musician, growing and learning usually means practicing, studying, reading, performing, of course; but growing as a person it is much more than that: it means feeding our personality with intelligent choices: being interested in many subjects, researching, being open- minded to everything that is different from what we know, to everybody who have different skills, competences, attitudes. To give an example, I found interesting things to learn in different artistic fields after completing my musical studies: I worked on connections between fine arts and music, I practiced some modern musical genres (I still prefer classical music, but it was nice to do it), I intensified my work with a choir and improved my singing skills, and finally I had an experience as an actor, singer and dancer in a musical production. But I learned something useful even in other fields: I had some other jobs while I was studying, I can say with confidence that I achieved much from it to; I forgot ancient Greek and Latin, but studying them would help me learning foreign languages when I was older. And, last but not least, I achieved much leaving abroad for six years. So, now I come to the point. In my opinion, what we all should do is “learning to learn”. And I think it is one of the most important things that we must teach to our pupils: not only giving them some information, but helping them to use them, letting them think, teaching them how to learn. I can swear that in the past five years I learned from my pupils as much as I taught them.