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Originally Posted by keithwms  And yes, I do think that few people in academia spend enough time learning how to teach, and very few actually enjoy teaching.
How would this work for photography (which I also have taught)? Well I think that first and foremost people need to understand the history of the field and how it came to be what it is today. Second, I think the basic techniques should be so thoroughly mastered as to leave the student unencumbered. But these things can be done through a student's own exploration and not rammed down the throat.
I am in a field where for too long the approach has been to teach solutions before students have an interest in the problems; I do spend a fair amount of time on motivating critical thought. |
Thanks for this. I am delighted with what you've said. We probably need another thread for this. There is a great deal to say about it.
I learned that my students do not see, and have, in general, no idea what seeing would be. For example, and a particularly poignant one, I once asked "What is real?" The answer I got was "We each get to make that up for ourselves." If that is what reality is, then seeing is not important at all, is it?