I had a discussion with someone today

[Beringia]

99. This is off topic, but I was listening to the Richard Diebenkorn interview

With Archives of American Art and he was saying how he had a job teaching in the beginning at Univ of Illinois and they required the architect students to take an art course and he would end up with many of them. And he said some of them showed leanings toward being real artists, so he encouraged them in that direction, and then they were judged by a team who ran the program for the architects and they would give the students he had encouraged in their artistic pursuits, Ds. And Diebenkorn felt bad about that.

I remember a wonderful calculus teacher I had, that taught very much in a creative, use your own mind kind of way and the students who needed A's (such as pre-med) really didn't like her class, because they had no way to guarantee getting an A.

p 36 in the PDF

https://www.aaa.si.edu/download_pdf_transcript/ajax?record_id=edanmdm-AAADCD_oh_216520


https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-richard-diebenkorn-11813#overview