Some Rules and Hints for Teachers and Students
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By Corita Kent

cf. The Next Whole Earth Catalog, ed. by Stewart Brand (Point/Random
House, 1980), p. 540

Rule 1: Find a place you trust and then, try trusting it for a while. 

Rule 2: General duties of a student---pull everything out of your
teachers; pull everything out of your fellow students.

Rule 3: General duties of a teacher---pull everything out of your
students.

Rule 4: Consider everything an experiment. 

Rule 5: Be self-disciplined---this means finding someone wise or smart and
choosing to follow them.  To be disciplined is to follow in a good way. 
To be self-disciplined is to follow in a better way. 

Rule 6: Nothing is a mistake.  There's no win and no fail, there's only
make. 

Rule 7: The only rule is work.  If you work it will lead to something.
It's the people who do all of the work all of the time who eventually
catch on to things.

Rule 8: Don't try to create and analyze at the same time.  They're
different processes.  

[Dr. Ringwald's own note: I wouldn't take such an extreme opinion.  I
think it's possible to create and to analyze at the same time.  Be aware,
though, that they are different processes, much like taking a step
forward with the left foot, and taking a step forward with the right foot. 
To walk or to run, we need both.]

Rule 9: Be happy whenever you can manage it.  Enjoy yourself.  It's
lighter than you think.

Rule 10: "We're breaking all the rules.  Even our own rules.  And how do
we do that?  By leaving plenty of room for X quantities."  -- John Cage

Hints:  Always be around.  Come or go to everything.  Always go to
classes.  Read anything you can get your hands on.  Look at movies
carefully, often.  Save everything---it might come in handy later.