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- From: david@xlnt.com (David Johnson)
- Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
- Subject: Re: Charging for training?
- Message-ID: <1251@xlnt.COM>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 18:00:16 GMT
- References: <MARY.92Nov15113437@martinique.Cayman.COM> <1992Nov15.195054.27141@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
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- In article <1992Nov15.195054.27141@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>, anderson@fermi.phys.ualberta.ca (Warren G. Anderson) writes:
- |>
- |> Richard Parry writes:
- |>
- |> > We pretty much feel that if you are making money out of a love of
- |> > something (take that however you like), you are indeed cheapening it.
- |>
- |> Interesting attitude. I love physics and I make a (meager) living out of
- |> doing it. I don't really feel like I'm cheapening it. By your philosophy,
- |> if anyone has a job doing something they love they should give up the job
- |> so that they can get one doing something they don't love and then just
- |> pursue the thing they love on a hobby level.
- |>
- |> All the best. Hope your doing something you dislike suitably for a living.
-
- I agree with Warren. The martial arts teacher is entitled to make a
- decent or even prosperous living if (s)he works at it hard enough.
- Does Richard mean to say that a good and dedicated full time martial
- arts instructor should not live above the poverty line?
-
- My objection to the money thing in martial arts instruction is when
- the art is compromised for the sake of getting more cash. Eg.,
- promising to award a black belt to someone if that person stays
- with the school x years (and spending y dollars in the process)
- without regard to skill level.
-
- When you attend a university you expect to pay for your education.
- Utilities and upkeep need to be paid for. Instructors salaries
- need to be paid (they deserve a decent living too). But you should
- not expect to get a degree after attending the school for four
- years if you paid your fees and was enrolled but never studied
- and never performed well in class. The school be in the business
- of educating you and you compensate the school for that education.
- The educating is the school's mission. Collecting fees should only
- be done as necessary to pay for operating it and keeping the
- standards of quality high not for the purpose of keeping the fat cats fat.
-
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- David Johnson
- XLNT Designs, Inc. (XDI)
- david@xlnt.com
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