Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/02/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]One, Norm, not only are the kids I teach light years beyond me in the things technical to which you refer, they are flat out brilliant in terms of raw intelligence. But no, had I named Nachtwey they'd have done no better - I showed War Photographer in the first class and not one of them had ever heard of him. As to how I screen. In fact, I let more in each year, and try not to keep kids out. Each year I've had a few kids with virtually no previous photo experience, and no obvious talent, and grade them not on the quality of the work, but rather on the progress they make and initiative they show. As to the quiz - there was a range of questions designed to show me if they had any photo backgound at all. All the results do is give me a way to make cuts if I need to. All that said, I am far less sanquine than you about this generation. I saw a new study yesterday indicating that 18 to I believe 29 year olds on average read - reading of any tpe - on average of 4 min per day. I'm glad they can modify cars, but... ___ Sent with SnapperMail www.snappermail.com ...... Original Message ....... On Sat, 11 Feb 2006 19:30:52 -0800 "Norm Aubin" <puff11@comcast.net> wrote: "formal academic environment. I