Lou Kahn, speaking to his graduate design studio at Penn in 1958, was sidetracked by one of the twelve young sophisticates who asked just what does it take to become a great teacher. I, who had not the slightest aspiration to become a pedant and wanted only to contribute to architecture, the noble profession, was tickled by Lou's response:
"A teacher does not need to know anything. He just has to be able to put a student in the way of knowing.
But an instructor had better know something or he'll be fired".
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Patrick Quinn FAIA
Albany NY
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