Is this a dagger? A reason why Art is not a subject that should be taught

Walsh speaks of his own experience of being a tutor for twenty five years in Studio Practice at Goldsmiths in The Department of Art. He does not, he says, teach anyone anything, instead he looks at whatever it is he is being given to look at, and he listens to whatever it is he is being told, because he wants to - through his own thoughts - to try to understand the concerns that might be at stake through the development of an individual's own practice.