Originally Posted by bonsaial1

Will, very entertaining proverb, but not very truthfull.

This thread has to do with personalities only known from asscociation with the forum. While I have a very outspoken, brash, condesending attitude on the forum, I am the complete opposite in person. I think many in that situation, with the master, would just sit politely while the master talked endlessly about the basics. Not even me would question the master during study.

I have been at many lectures and workshops, demo's and the such. Most people absorb whats useful and let the other stuff just float away to bonsai heaven.

Now the rub, there are many that participate in online forums that feel the need to express their indifference to rudimentary aspects of bonsai. This can be done here simply because you "don't have to look your opponet in the eye". Trust me that makes all the difference.

Al