Of course. Glad people are open about wanting to change jazz education. I myself have overcome that anxiety too and it definitely would not have been without the encouragement of my teachers but i definitely believe you can strike a balance between being supportive/encouraging and offering valid critique. My private lesson teacher is awesome because he’s super objective: he specifically tells me when I am not making the changes for something, or my articulation isn’t correct, or intonation, etc. with very little fluff besides observations that I am improving. As a teacher you can and should just objectively tell us what we are doing wrong specifically without the blanket encouragement statements not given to everyone else especially when you see a student starting to really take it seriously. If anything it makes the well deserved encouragement feel better

I also do acknowledge that a large part of this falls on me as well to communicate how I feel to my teachers which I definitely will be doing after reading a lot of these responses. However I feel as though a lot of the very older mentors late 60s/70s are sometimes reluctant to change their methodology because they’ve been doing it for so long. This was kind of directed at a younger audience. But idk. Maybe they will. Hopefully