Clay, I couldn't agree with you more!! I had a lady from another state in Australia ask me to teach her Bucks - and she was very surprised when I readily agreed.
Her "teacher" in the other state had refused to teach her Bucks because "you're trying to run before you can walk". So I asked how long she'd been learning Torchon - 8 years! The "teacher" also dictated which patterns they worked and sold them the thread to do it...this lady had no idea about how to find a lace supplier and buy books and threads for herself. My aim, when teaching, is to make the student as independant as possible as quickly as possible, with as much knowledge as I can muster crammed into their heads. And if I don't know the answer to a question, I tell them so, and try to find out - that way, we both learn something. Ruth (Sydney, Australia) > Clay Blackwell <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have also encountered teachers who have very slyly cultivated a style > which keeps the student dependent on them. I won't take a class from a > teacher like that. The best teachers (in my opinion) are those who > freely share their knowledge, give you a list of outside resources > (i.e., books) that apply to the lace you're working, and also offer you > (in advance of the workshop) a choice of patterns to be worked so that > you will be working on something that pleases you and therefore will not > > be boring. They do *not* tell you that the only way to do something > is the way they are teaching you to do it. (Good teachers acknowledge > that there are often multiple ways to accomplish something, and that the > > one they like is... - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]
