[Jewelry making - Article 00821] - Re: [Orchid] Ethics of Learning & Teaching

[Beth Wicker]

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>     I guess the question I was getting at was not is anyone free to
>     use a technique but are they free to teach it to others? 

    Well, of course! How have folks been learning and passing things on
    for generations if not? 

    If you put that into a general context, I think it becomes obvious,
    where in a particular context it may become lost in protecting "me". 

    Can you imagine if each doctor had to rediscover, on her own, how
    the human body works and how to do surgery?? Obviously ridiculous.
    Someone discovered this and taught it to someone else who taught it
    to someone else, etc. Hopefully infinitely! 

    Jewelry is the same. If someone does NOT want a technique they feel
    they invented passed on, they should not teach/share it in the first
    place. Which, if it is a good/interesting technique would be a real
    pity. On the other hand, not much is really "new"... mostly just re-
    invented or rediscovered. 

    IMHO 

    Beth in SC who is at the beach in NC "enjoying" Tropical Storm
    Cristobal and hoping it will not take the beach away with it!
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