ARCH - Another name
N.D. Wederstrandt
nweders at mail.utexas.edu
Fri Jul 7 08:52:17 PDT 2000
>Greetings and Hi There,
>
>A while back on this list someone brought up taking students. That thought
>has been in the back of mind and has finnally come up for air. Here is my
>basic very changeable sugestion. Untill we get a higher level award, those
>people who have been awarded the King's Archer may take students. (In
>reality, any one can teach if they have someone willing to learn what they
>have to teach them). Hopefully a relationship such as a Don to a Cadet or
>a Knight to a Squire or a Pelican to a Protege or a Laurel to an
>Apprentise. My only problem is what spiffy thing do we call these students.
****WARNING very strong opinion. (me strong opinion???)*******
Anyone may take someone as a student or an apprentice. You don't
have to be a King's Archer, a Laurel or a Pelican, Squire or Don. If you
have something to teach and you want to teach then by all means teach. You
don't have to be in a superior position to teach someone. Some Laurels,
Pelicans and etc. don't take them formally for a lot of different reasons.
Some of my best teachers are people who are not anything "offical" .
Almost everyone I'm learning archery from doesn't have any award for
archery.
To encourage this concept could be harmful. I'm sorry Gilli, I
don't mean to sound critical or harsh or mean but it sets upa really bad
precedent that I find annoying. I don't approve of it in either the
Laurels or the rest of the Peers. It promotes the concept that you can't
teach without the proper credientals and I don't think that's true...... It
prpomotes a really skewed system of thinking you have to have this before
you can do this. It's getting to be where one can't be considered for a
Laurel without being an Apprentice which I find objectionable. I think
it's not a idea to promote.
I am a student to a fighter who is not a Knight and I wouldn't
chosse anyone else to work with -- I don't care what I'm called. (He calls
me a lot especially when I do something dumb).
I know you have issues about awards for archers and I will be happy
to sit down at some event and listen but I really think this isn't a good
suggestion. We should work towards a community that teaches each other as
companions, partners and friends. Personal relationships (student/teacher)
will occur naturally.
Regards,
Clare
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