Some Rules and Hints for Teachers and Students

Some Rules and Hints for Teachers and Students
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By Corita Kent

cf. The Next Whole Earth Catalog, ed. by Stewart Brand (Point/Random
House, 1980), p. 540

Rule 1: Find a place you trust and then, try trusting it for a while.

Rule 2: General duties of a student---pull everything out of your
teachers; pull everything out of your fellow students.

Rule 3: General duties of a teacher---pull everything out of your
students.

Rule 4: Consider everything an experiment.

Rule 5: 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.

Rule 6: Nothing is a mistake. There's no win and no fail, there's only
make.

Rule 7: The only rule is work. If you work it will lead to something.
It's the people who do all of the work all of the time who eventually
catch on to things.

Rule 8: Don't try to create and analyze at the same time. They're
different processes.

Rule 9: Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It's
lighter than you think.

Rule 10: "We're breaking all the rules. Even our own rules. And how do
we do that? By leaving plenty of room for X quantities." -- John Cage

Hints: Always be around. Come or go to everything. Always go to
classes. Read anything you can get your hands on. Look at movies
carefully, often. Save everything---it might come in handy later.

(found this on the net attributed in whole to John Cage, have not verified
the Kent attribution at the top - or the fidelity of this text to it - but
it seems relatively convincing since it has a page number. In any case
thought these were worthy of pondering and discussion. Some parts I find
vague or don't make sense to me, but I particularly liked the hints and
rules 7 and 8)