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Join Date: Jan-2004
Location: Ottawa, KS
Country: USA
Posts: 1,730
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Originally Posted by Will_Heath
An SOB is simply a Student of Bonsai, nothing more, nothing less.
A teachers qualifications are important but the student will not automatically become good because of the teacher. It directly correlates with the ability of the student, the attention given, the talent they have, and the intelligence to use what they have learned. Just because someone has taken a few classes with a master does not make them a master, in fact, there are some who could study a lifetime with a master and still never be able to produce the same quality of work.
If you want to impress people, don't drop your teachers name, instead show the results of studying with that teacher, then when people ask...do your teacher the honor of mentioning his/her name.
Will Heath
(Student of Bates)
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Will, what ever gave you the false impression that I considered myself a master? It certainly couldn't be because of the quantity of my posts. Thirty years' experience does not make a master either, and I have seen many with one years' experience thirty times. I have always had my own work out there as an open book. I don't care to impress anyone, I just love my trees and the work I learning to do on them. So I document the process and if anyone gains anything from that, that's fantastic. There is a sore lack of illustrated how-to articles on the web. Nothing can replace learning from someone who is right there with you. But the illustrated articles are better than just reading text, and just text is better than nothing.
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