[Jewelry making - Article 00088] - Re: [Orchid] Teaching techniques

[richard hart]

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>     In that case I remind them that I teach techniques, the designs are
>     up to them.

    How does a teachers ability or lack of ability to design or to teach
    design affect the outcome? What limitation does the student
    experience by not having support in what my opinion is probably the
    most important aspect of making something. Without learning design,
    it seems that imitation is all that is available to most students. I
    realize some people have a natural ability to be very creative with a
    technique. 

    Is creativity in the technique, or is it in the ability to design?
    And the difference between having a preconceived outcome, learning
    from that experience and using what you learn as evolution of an
    idea, or relying on serendipity. 

    I wonder about the relationship of teaching as a technique as
    opposed to teaching technique as a function of design. 

    The limitation of the teacher is the limitation of the student. 

Richard Hart


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