Johann Sebastian Bach was encouraged by his teachers to find solutions to problems

Bach attended St. Michael School, where the teachers there were creative and pushed the students to develop their critical thinking skills. They would offer them tasks and ask them to find solutions.

Sebastian and his friend Georg walked to and from school every day because it was far from where they lived. The contact and the educational approach used at the school enabled the young Bach to set and attain his goals. During those two years, Bach was exposed to a wide range of European cultures.

He participated in the choir, played the harpsichord, and played the three-manual organ there. Students from all around the nation attended St. Michael's School, and the majority of them came from affluent backgrounds.

The prominent organist and composer Dieterich Buxtehude gave a concert at Lübeck in northern Germany in 1705, and 20-year-old Bach traveled 280 miles on foot from Arnstadt to attend. Sebastian made multiple journeys to Hamburg where he saw Johann Adam Reincken, a legendary North German organist, perform. Bach spent all of his life in Germany.