: teaching in the digital age means mastery of Control C & Control V
in the 20th century, it cost at least a penny for someone else’s thought.

i know now, but suspected then, that my teachers were new, and had just begun learning to share —
like new managers, they make the mistake of taking too strong a stand, offering partial solutions, or vague half-gestures. their dance getting in the way, more than pointing toward a way.

which may be why they never got the box open, nor saw the block of negatives used as doorstop, nor….