ok...time to update. teaching high school kids is deeply rwarding on a personal level. especially the content that i cover teaching visual arts. what i always keep in mind is that i am simply teaching methods and techniques..not creativity. they have unmeasurable amounts of creative energy, they just need to learn how to use tools and what steps to take to express it...today i stayed 2 and 1/2 hours after school to help a fashion student sew her dress together...a dress she designed and created the pattern for.and is now being stiched together...she just needed to learn a few techniques and be shown how to use the tools, thread the machine as it were...now seeing the product of her imagination materialize with the work of her own hands...what a deep pleasure....so real and so beautiful.
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