Cob: FW: experience is overrated -- an eight-year-old with a cookbook could do this stuff!

[Donna Strow]

-----Original Message-----
From: name witheld; I just wanted to show this
Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2003 1:15 PM
To: Donna Strow
Subject: Re: experience is overrated -- an eight-year-old with a
cookbook could do this stuff!


I am so glad to see someone with the same thoughts!
Thanks so much for sharing!!!


----- Original Message -----
From: "Donna Strow" <dstrow at bcpl.net>
To: <coblist at deatech.com>
Cc: <Lstrow at sha.state.md.us>
Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2003 3:02 PM
Subject: Cob: experience is overrated -- an eight-year-old with a cookbook
could do this stuff!


>
> Dear Coblist Buddies,
>
> I learned the value of experience when I went to a Natural Building
> workshop.  Experience gives you clout, and it teaches you that ... there
> isn't much more to be said for experience in Natural Building!!  The
> workshop consisted of classes and practica.  The classes were instructive
> but the practica were monotinous and hardly at all instructive.
>
> Yet, because I participated in the practica, I now have the clout to tell
my
> family and my neighbors that, yes, I can do this, and, yes, I can teach
them
> how.  I also have the clout to tell them that there's little I can teach
> them outside of a classroom...
>
> Which is a real bummer, because I thought I was going to make a living
> offering hands-on instruction workshops.  Now I'm wondering ... how can I
do
> this?  I'm not Tom Sawyer.  Can I ask my neighbors to *pay* to work on my
> barn?  Might they value the experience more than I, such that  it would
> actually be reasonable to charge them for the priviledge?
>
> So perhaps I should charge for classroom instruction and offer free
practica
> with the caveat that I appreciate everyone's help and that, again,
> experience is overrated and all they really need to do is take their class
> notes home and build their own barns!
>
> Donna Strow
>
>