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[quote=Anonymous]It's difficult to teach violin [i]technique[/i] and sight-reading skills simultaneously to beginners, because you're asking them to do an awful lot of tasks simultaneously.

If you're starting kids out at age 4, they generally don't know how to read words, and some of them might not even know their alphabet fluently yet. Getting them to read music while simultaneously getting down the extremely difficult basics of technique is problematic.

Students who are learning via non-Suzuki means are more reliant on reading notes in order to learn anything at all, but it doesn't mean that they're necessarily spending more time on note-reading per se, especially for anyone who's thoughtful about introducing note-reading independent from the violin.

I agree that everyone needs both skills, though. Some kids regardless of method never get good at playing by ear, and some kids never get good at reading music. (Real fluency at sight-reading music on the violin requires a fair amount of instinctive technique / motor planning skills.)[/quote]

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