[Jewelry making - Article 00192] - Re: [Orchid] Self taught Vs Formal training

[Karen Bahr]

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>     do not denigrate what you are doing. working with young people
>     in a supportive environment is one of the most loving, important
>     things that a sentient being can provide." 

    The only 'down' side to teaching these kids is that I am paid less.
    I have found that teaching kids that do not have a lot of
    'programming' that we as adults have picked up over the years is
    quite stimulating. It definitely has helped me look outside of my own
    box of views and see things differently. It has also helped me to
    improve my teaching as now I concentrate more on the how to
    experiment safely. I remember how most of the jewellery making books
    I have read, have a lot of "you can't do this...; you have to do
    this, this way...; this or that cannot be done." The kids would ask
    why and I would have to stop and really think about the answer and no
    just parrot what was in such and such a book. Instead what I tell all
    my students is that before you experiment one should learn what the
    books say not to do and why so that when they experiment they are
    doing it in a safe way. 

    *I am not saying the authors are wrong, just that often they must
    write in a way so as to keep the idiots safe. In our litigious world,
    some people do not really have the not so common 'common sense' and
    our brave authors do not need to be held liable because the 1 in a
    million person who is an idiot did not think about how to do
    something safely. 

    If some of us did not push the limits of some of our metal working
    'rules' people like Charles Lewton-Brain would not have created such
    things as fold-forming. 

    It was because of Charles that I started teaching at the Alberta
    College of Art (ACAD) in the first place. I have known Charles and
    Dee for more than 15 years and feel privileged to be able to call
    them friends, along with many other very talented artists here in
    Calgary. 

Regards
Karen Bahr - Karen's Artworx
Calgary, Alberta, Canada

 
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