1. It doesn't need to be a nursery, but neither does it need to be a place where deigning to speak without an invitation results in a backlash.
2. That's the problem. People can criticise something to their hearts content, but there's no need to be abusive about it or to categorise others as somehow being lesser being for having the audacity to take a different approach or to see benefit in things like primers.
"...nobody else has a right to tell another how to be himself."
3..And yet we have people in this very thread telling others they are inadequate because they want to understand or share some technical basics or provide some general guidelines, as if that's not telling another how to be themselves.
4. That old line about teachers was dropped earlier. What a load of rubbish. Those who can do but refuse to teach, or insist on bowed before first, are the lowest of the low.
1. So where does one apply for the permit to speak out, or, perhaps, should that be: where does one apply for a permit to disagree with Phil?
2. Where has anyone in
this thread abused anyone else? (I think of the term abuse in its traditional form, not the politically correct one popular today, where to disagree is to abuse. If it's your definition, then there's nowhere left for any discussion with you to go.)
3. Nope, nobody is calling them inadequate; if you read it better, the suggestion is that those peddling the superior understanding of how to
be whatever, are the offenders selling the best oil of snake. What I would suggesrt, and do, is that the hopeful, wannabe person realises early on that he's being milked.
And before you go any further into the realm of straw sculpture, realise that I have always advocated the
learning of photographic mechanics, which is essential to everyone wanting to get somewhere in the discipline. However, photographic mechanics do not make photographers. God makes good photographers as he makes good musicians, good authors, good cooks or successful growers of pretty flowers.
4. I think you'll find the answer in my 3. above, unless you prefer to look the other way instead. Our last dog did that every time she saw something she thought a threat. We loved her so much we never felt able to replace her; but she was a pooch