📐Corita Kent's ten rules for students and teachers (1967)

Rules Sister Corita Kent handed her art students at Immaculate Heart College in 1967, later spread everywhere via John Cage. Source: corita.org.

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Rule one - find a place you trust and then try trusting it for a while.

Rule two - pull everything out of your teacher; pull everything out of your fellow classmates.

the crossover with critique culture in design school is not a coincidence

rule 3 - general duties of a teacher: pull everything out of your students.

Rule 4 - consider everything an experiment.

(still true) - the one I put on a sticky note during my first internship

Rule five - be self disciplined. this means finding someone wise or smart and choosing to follow them.

rule six - nothing is a mistake. there's no win and no fail. there's only make.

everyone quotes this one without reading the other nine

Rule 7 - the only rule is work. if you work it will lead to something.

Rule eight - don't try to create and analyse at the same time. they're different processes.

pin this above the desk. I mean it literally, mine is above the monitor

rule 9 - be happy whenever you can manage it. enjoy yourself. it's lighter than you think.

Rule ten - we're breaking all the rules, even our own, by leaving plenty of room for X quantities (John Cage's addition).

cage sat in on her class and this is the rule everyone forgets isn't corita's

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