The teacher (whose name I forget - blacked out for ever from my memory in
disgust at her attitude) took one look at my feeble attempts and said in a very
snooty voice - "Not very good, is it?"
There are people in every profession who make themselves look big the only way they *can* (or know) -- by making *others* look small... But *nowhere* is it more devastating than when such bucket of very cold BS is dumped by a teacher/parent; "demanding" is one thing (carefully adjusted to the needs of the "recipient"), "denigrating" quite another.
At least, most of us take up lacemaking as *paying adults*, for the fun of it, so we have the option of voting with our feet and out of *that* classroom... All the same, I must say that y'all's (Malvary not being the only one) recollections only confirm me in thinking myself lucky; I was self-taught all the way until my skills were strong enough to withstand *constructive* criticism, and to disregard the nonsensical :)
Ann Durant's:
Maybe Torchon was the only lace the "teacher" knew how to make?
rings very true. It's a pity however that so many people let themselves be victimised
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Tamara P Duvall
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Formerly of Warsaw, Poland
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