I attended a talk among glass artists who were discussing their approach to their craft. One artist mentioned that he never went to college and observed that he was not enamored of formal education. As he explained further, he clarified his observation that teachers only taught what they knew and that students are acknowledged for repeating what the teacher knows. The result, he urged, is that students are not taught to experiment and go beyond. From the artist’s perspective, this discourages new techniques — doing something that is heretofore never tried or unthinkable. In a sense, we are all teachers and mentors. Will those who learn from us go beyond what we may be comfortable with?