by Gordon Salchow
Myth number one:-that schools should avoid their own "look" and provide a broad education
By having each student work on the same assignments instead of different ones.
PROS
Uniqueness does not demonstrate understanding
Quality portfolios
Start out the same and you will grow individual.
Easier to for a judge to asses a schools ability.
CONS
Non-diverse outlook
Non-liberal
Myth number two:-that practicing designers are the best design educators.
They clame to be designers who teach, not teachers who design
Virtually anyone can get a degree, at a community college or low cost university with loans. And from personal experience at a community college, the graphic design teachers don’t even have to be good. Their evaluators are not "teaching designers".
Because the evaluation of a students artistic ability is, in part, subjective; know two colleges, or teachers, will give exactly the same score.
Why? Because, unlike a 50 question, write or wrong, biology test or a 5 page research paper, art is personal, individual and particular. People like different things.
ME: I agree that working parallel to my fellow design students is better in many ways that following my own original direction. As a design student I understand the importance of group collaboration.
I agree that a teachers main goal should be focused on improving the students ability instead of on improving their own abilities or trying to challenge their own skills.
Paula Sher: Back to Show and Tell
Designers learn by fallowing the teacher and understanding what she has learned over the years.
I agree: this theory is also true with any skill. This is what separates us from animals and allows us to grow, continuing the research of our fathers.
