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If people want artists to do art in ways that take longer, they should fucking pay for it.
“I hate it when people use tools of convenience to get a job done for poverty wages” . hm. I see . 
My traditional painting got better when I had access to digital tools that allowed for the ability to make mistakes and drafts quickly. It’s a tool. I switch between both mediums bc each informs the other. If you can’t teach around new tools sorry you’re obsolete. 
Also, as a former professor, I can’t even tell you how horrifying it is to see professors call kids “lazy” in today’s day and age. That kind of mistake is maybe easy for younger/less experienced professors to make, but as you see more of the world you see varied circumstances.
If you’re not considering the socioeconomic conditions that your students are working in and you’re calling them lazy I have no good words for you.
Like damn do I need to point at some big depressing graphs about modern poverty and shrinking possibilities again?
I think my first semester teaching I remember feeling like I needed to exert power over my students via intimidating assignments, etc. I was young and inexperienced and afraid. As I taught I realized how absolutely insane that is.
The fear aspect is unnecessary in teaching, ESPECIALLY when people are paying for that education. It’s destructive, not productive. You’re wasting your time and their time and their money and their lives for intimidation tactics that do nothing but slow progress.
“I don’t have to model what I was taught if what I was taught is destructive,” is a vital human lesson, and a lesson a lot of people don’t learn. As I age it’s really been amazing to see who learns that and who does not.
As I got more experience as a professor, I tried my best to shift my attitude from “This is what you need to learn, or else!“ to “How can I help you learn what you need to learn? Where are you trying to go?“
So when I see established profs thinking that there’s anything cool about making their students feel small... They are congratulating themselves on wasting peoples time for a life-ruining amount of money.
By the way, I am saying this as a person who learned actually very well in particularly strict and stressful environments. But that should not be the norm. And my work would have been so much better so much earlier without the fear aspect and all that time-wasting posturing.
Profs, ask yourself this question: Is this method productive, or is this more about about my ego as The Teacher?
This was a question I ended up having to ask myself a lot when I started to get more experience teaching. It can be a hard pill to swallow!
This was a question I ended up having to ask myself a lot when I started to get more experience teaching. It can be a hard pill to swallow!
Also, apologies to the poor students who dealt with my idiot lost soul in my mid-20s trying to figure out that teaching meant in my first year and learning all of these hard lessons as I realized the differences in effectiveness between what I was taught vs a gentler method.
Basically it comes down to this. If you, as a professor (and as a person), cannot zoom out and see the larger world, where you stand in it, where others stand in it, and the helps and hurts of those respective positions, you need to reconsider your fitness as one who teaches.
