For instance, today I had a class in which the teacher said:
-Dada is just an overrated joke
-Atonal music began in the 1890s
-the first electronic composition was made by Hindemith.
-(among others)
After that, I had to conclaim my colleagues to warn them of these mistakes.
It's incredible how mediocre people use their status in the academic
world just to have some control over people.
rafael
>Don, the majority of art teachers that I have met are fairly poorly educated
in the arts (or at least anything beyond the mainstream). It's very
disappointing. Certainly there have been occasions when I have been pleased
to talk to an art lecturer to ask them how they present certain material to
students only to find they've never heard of it and start asking me
questions. I'm just a computer programmer without 1 art qualification to my
name and they're asking me about things...it's plain daft! They could read
the books and other sources I do, they just choose to ignore a large part of
the creative activity going on in the world.>
