RULE ONE

General duties of a student: pull everything out of your teacher; pull everything out of your fellow students.

RULE TWO

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

RULE THREE

Consider everything an experiment.

RULE FOUR

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 FIVE

Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no lose, there’s only make.

RULE SIX

Working hard is good. Working smart is better. Doing both is the path to excellence.

RULE SEVEN

Don’t try to create and analyze at the same time. They’re different processes.

RULE EIGHT

Be happy. Be curious. Be involved. Enjoy yourself. If you’re not those things, change your life until you are.

HINTS

Be on time for life. 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. Learn constantly, until your last breath.

Adapted from the art class rules of Sister Corita Kent. I’ve also made a PDF version to download, print and post. Typeset using French Canon Fell Type by Igino Marini in OpenType with CSS.

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