Gardner makes the point that it takes time for the disciplined mind to master even one way of thinking, and notes that it took him a decade to hone his psychology thinking skills. For some reason, this message caused me to remember the old saying, “Those that can do, do, and those that can’t do, teach.”
Of course, teaching is a profession that requires doing, where there are skills that need to be mastered, and I believe it takes a great deal longer than ten years to do so. In fact, it’s a never-ending process.
But the old saying holds some truth for me in that I am no master of any one art medium. If your course of study to become an art teacher was anything like mine, you were required to study all the art mediums in order to be able to expose students to every form of art. This type of education doesn’t allow one to master any one medium very well, and as a teacher, it is hard to find the time to do so. I have tried to concentrate solely on watercolors for about twenty years, and I still feel as if I haven’t truly mastered this medium. To master it to my satisfaction would take my total devotion for at least a decade.
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