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Dear Martin, The fact that you have to inform your students of your mature awareness of humility is an illustration of the "arrogance" problem and the "innate skill" problem that I was raising. Students come with the arrogance/innate skill presumptions. The magic persists. My writings students presume they do what I do because they can speak and read and write. They show no understanding of my 50 years of humble learning how to write/think/theorise. Mostly they just deny the difference. Writing is anything but magic. It's mostly mundane. Cheers Keith > On 13 May 2015, at 8:59 pm, Salisbury, Martin <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Hi Keith, > > "The arrogance of those who can draw is supported by the cultural acceptance that some people are really skilful at drawing while most people are pathetic." > > Sorry- I'm struggling to understand the above statement. Are you suggesting that people who 'can draw' are arrogant? And are you suggesting that the popular misconceptions about innate 'skill' in drawing are well founded? I'd be grateful for clarification. > > One of the things I point out regularly to my students is that I can now draw just about well enough to know how badly I draw. > > Best wishes, > > Martin ----------------------------------------------------------------- PhD-Design mailing list <[log in to unmask]> Discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design Subscribe or Unsubscribe at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/phd-design -----------------------------------------------------------------