ANST - A&S "skill ranks"...

[Carl Chipman]

-----Original Message-----
From: John Ruble <ulf at urocor.com>
To: 'ansteorra at Ansteorra.ORG' <ansteorra at Ansteorra.ORG>
Date: Wednesday, December 24, 1997 12:09 PM
Subject: RE: ANST - A&S "skill ranks"...


>>Pug  said:
>>  What are other people's opinions of what a master in a field of study
>>  is or should be? Am I expecting too much from a master? Is my concept
>>  more on the order of the "Great Chefs of the world" than simple mastery
>>  of a field? I wouldn't be surprised if my ideals were unreasonably
>>  higher than others since I seem to be repeatedly setting them too high.
>
>A decent question, and everyone is ignoring it in favor of the
>discussions on horseshoes and Kingdom Law... There's an analogy in there
>somewhere...
>
>I'm not a Laurel.  I'm more like a sprig of sage, oh sagely spriggin.
>But I'll add what I was told when I joined years ago.  "A
>Master/Mistress should be good enough in their craft to support
>themselves with it," I was told.  I think this was supposed to mean that
>if this person were dumped N-centuries back in time, they would quickly
>rise to great recognition performing their craft, and they would achieve
>a level of acceptance among the nobles equivalent to what we are
>supposed to accord our Laurels.
>
>I realise this is not very qualitative.  Let me make another stab at it.
> Let's take a Master, let's say, Brewer.  I feel this individual should
>be able to make just about any major kind of potage (wine, beer, mead,
>etc.) of passable quality, and should be recognized for several
>exceptional brews in at least one of these varieties.  But there is more
>to brewing than the booze.  The Master should know the grains and
>yeasts, the glassware and woodware, which ones are good and _why_.  They
>should be able to create new brews based on this knowledge.
<SNIP>
That I think is the important thing for the master of any craft... The
creation of new things based on the knowledge and experience (and sometimes
luck) that they have obtained.  Masters should be those who advance the
craft.


Jean Paul



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