Mar 13, 2009

Truth

Acedemic (non-design) education tends to reward students who find the single "right" answer to a question or assignment. The possibility of many right answers for each problem is extraordinarily liberating because it increase exponentially the chances of success. It is also extraordinarily instructive, because seeing a variety of responses, even "wrong" ones, sharpen developing critical skills.

Holtzschue, Linda. 2002. Understanding Color: An Introduction for designers - 2nd Edition

There's a footnote at the end of this paragraph, it says -
"Some students who have been very successful in traditional acedemic areas find this flexible standard of "rightness" very difficult!"

I'm starting to like this course.
Tell it like it is baby, screw the lousy flawed system!

Man do I sound angsty.

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