inspiration

[BobofBobs]

Earned status is good--but especially in educational environments it can be bad, as it results in competition for points or other accolades rather than education. Also, there is a big danger of people getting stuck in positions if it is a team-based project--this person does numbers, this person makes graphics, etc. which is fine in a corporate situation but not in an educational/explorational thing.

This makes me think the Scribbler--it's about learning, perhaps, how you draw, and how that relates to how "artists" draw in terms of shading, etc., and learning how to modify one's own drawing--saying "hey, I can do that." An education in methodology, if you will. I think fear of failure and not doing well is really what kills education more than anything; I know plenty of people who would pick up something new but don't want to go through the usually necessary process of being awful at it.