I suspected this was probably the case, but then, the pot doesn’t necessarily have to be made on a potter’s wheel. There are pre-wheel methods for making pottery, but they’re mostly pretty slow, so I would probably experiment with the method of jumping up and down on a fifty pound mass of clay to create a depression, and shaping the clay around that by hand.
I suspect that if that grading procedure were applied in real life, you’d get some wags like me for whom willful perversity would trump efficiency, who would insist on making a single pot even if it turned out to be more difficult than making a handful of really heavy ones, and also a bunch of procrastinators who made all their pots in a rush at the last minute and thus failed to benefit much from practice, turning out a bunch of crappy pots.
If the professor wanted to encourage students to get the benefits of practice, they’d probably get better results asking the students to bring in a new pot every class.
I suspected this was probably the case, but then, the pot doesn’t necessarily have to be made on a potter’s wheel. There are pre-wheel methods for making pottery, but they’re mostly pretty slow, so I would probably experiment with the method of jumping up and down on a fifty pound mass of clay to create a depression, and shaping the clay around that by hand.
I suspect that if that grading procedure were applied in real life, you’d get some wags like me for whom willful perversity would trump efficiency, who would insist on making a single pot even if it turned out to be more difficult than making a handful of really heavy ones, and also a bunch of procrastinators who made all their pots in a rush at the last minute and thus failed to benefit much from practice, turning out a bunch of crappy pots.
If the professor wanted to encourage students to get the benefits of practice, they’d probably get better results asking the students to bring in a new pot every class.