Standards
Standards
One standard that is critical; never demand something that you cannot explain. "I require it be done this way because I think it best" is not good enough.
Sometimes standards can be 'stick in the mud' and maybe 'out of date'. Things can and do change - they must. However, certain agreed standards met by everyone throughout the industry can ease the problems that started this thread.
The old Panel of Examiners to a large extent did provide a central place of arguement. Dorothy Pooleys idea of a 'Central School of Instructing' maybe has some validity in this area. It could perhaps be a college of instructors providing a central think tank without being a school in itself, providing a facility for debate to bring us all back together. I'm amazed at the disprit standards taught at the current FIC schools. Each apparently doing their own thing.