Do students demand enough? The best kind of student is predatory.
It is often a great mistake to hold a teacher in too much awe.
Teachers should be used, and if you like, evolved from. There can
be no growth without the changing or atrophying of certain things in
the process. In the ideal situation both teacher and student change;
if the teacher remains invulnerable and omnipotent then he will, in
reality, become weaker and weaker and then suddenly die out -
asphixiated by insulation.

Ideas which persist through any length of time in history are
usually activated by being, in themselves, incomplete. Examples
of this are Christianity, Romeo and Juliet's love or, on our own
doorstep, The Bauhaus. The Bauhaus school has had such an
immense influence on our time, not primarily because of its
achievements, but rather because of what it did not achieve. An
untimely end is the most successful sustaining principle known to us,
Room is left for our imagination to complete the action, teaching
Should do tha same.

DAVID LONG

Extracts from NORTHWEST AMERICAN CRAFTSMEN'S
COUNCIL of September, 1966

OPINION: Way back in the summer of 1963, Gervais Reed of the
Henry Gallery, Univ. of Washington, mailed questionnaires to 350
craftsmen concerning the Northwest Craftsmen's Exhibition which
had been an annual spring event at the gallery for eleven years.
About 65 questionnaires were returned, answers were summarized
(well, sort of), and those who had replied received summaries.
There were so many interesting individual comments that Gervais
felt impelled to print them all, along with the tabulated yes, no, ete. ,
results. In fact, on the question of competence of the juries
practically everyone had a comment! Mostly reassuring, however,
At any rate, the summary is interesting reading and we
appreciated receiving it.

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