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From John Cage

Some Rules and Hints for Students and Teachers

Find a place you trust and then, try trusting it for a while.
(General duties as a student) Pull everything out of your teacher. Pull everything put of your fellow students.
(General duties as a teacher) Pull everything out of your students.
Consider everything an experiment.
Be self-disciplined. This means finding someone wise or smart and choosing to follow them. To be disciplined is to follow in a good way. To be self-disciplined is to follow in a better way.
Follow the leader. Nothing is a mistake. There is no win and no fail. There is only make.
The only rule is work. If you work it will lead to something. It is the people who do all of the work all of the time who eventually catch on to things. You can fool the fans - but not the players.
Do not try to create and analyze at the same time. They are different processes.
Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It is lighter than you think.
We are breaking all of the rules, even our own rules and how do we do that? By leaving plenty of room for "x" qualities.

Helpful Hints.

Always be around.
Come and go to everything.
Always go to classes.
Read everything you can get your hands on.
Look at movies carefully and often.
Save everything. It may come in handy later.

From Critical Assessment from Drawing, 4th Edition Betti/Sale

Problems in an individual piece tend to fall within these five categories:

inconsistency of style, idea, or feeling
failure to determine basic structure
tendency to ignore negative space
inability to develop value range and transitions
failure to observe accurately

Daily Aztec SDSU

A Good Professor should have solid knowledge of the subject, communication ability, compassion, concern, high expectations, maintain high standards, treat students equally, enjoy what he/she does, have a good personality, sense of humor, scholarly ability and contagious enthusiasm for the subject matter, as well as build the campus and department, make the majors better, and build a future. 3/23/05