It is obvious then that a secondary level of craft education
is needed.

It is obvious from the questions that are asked by these people
who are so advanced in some ways but lacking in others.

It is also very obvious, from the new directions which pottery
as a craft is taking, that some better form of communication between
craftsmen, as craftsmen, as human beings, as mature people, must
come. Without this something we are set into a mold and hear the
same old dicta about the differences between crafts, art, fine art and
all those wrangles. We are faced with the fourteen year cycle of
renewal.

What is needed is information; on craft development and
education.

How terrible it is to spend time and sweat and make an
astonishing discovery only to discover later that it is old, well-
known, well recorded; how wonderful to discover that you have a
liking and a leaning for a type of work which links you with the first

people and you discover their freedoms. It all comes from education.

Therefore: After long and patient thought I wish to make the
following proposal:
That consideration and thought be given to the establishing
of a secondary education type of workshop. A group composed
of people of knowledge, not necessarily academic; crafts
people of each craft to be considered, established critics of
arts and crafts not necessarily of the fine art variety,
teachers who have spent lifetimes teaching crafts, buyers
and sellers of craft work, civil servants with experience of
covernment, business teachers, art historians (of the
utmost importance), people who have run gift shops or
organized non-profit craft centres, accountants and book-
keepers, all the suppliers of materials in any local area,
suppliers of equipment, technical people from the huge
industrial empires. Not all, but some of the above people
should be considered essential people. They should form the
nucleus of a seminar type workshop group to be augmented
in other areas from the people available as needed.

... David Lambert's further suggestions will be presented in the
next edition.

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