An interesting point came up in class last week. In various of my recent blog posts, I’ve made comments about silversmithing and jewelry skills that can’t be learned from books, they have to be passed along through physical repetition and training.
Lest someone mistake me for an anti-intellectual, I’ve got more books on metalsmithing and jewelry than anybody I know. (and I read them too.) Hundreds of them. I’m a sucker for new books. I figure there’s always some tidbit I didn’t know, or picture I haven’t seen.
The point here is that what does it say when the guy with all the books is the one saying you can’t learn it all from books?
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That is soooo FUNNY! From one who has so many jewelry/art books, that there’s piles waiting for bookshelf space. And you can’t learn it all from them.
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