Learning and teaching
The threshold of the apprentice and of the master: one enters a craft by working at it, not by studying it from a distance.
Whoever enters, enters under a rule.
Admission is not a competition: it is a pact. One enters on application, one is proposed, one signs the nizam ad-dar. From that day the hours belong to the workshop, and the workshop belongs to the house.
The apprenticeship has written terms: its length, its conduct, the ownership of the tools and of what is made. Nothing is left to the mood of the day; everything stands in the text that both have read and signed.
Whoever teaches, answers for it.
The master does not take on a role: he takes on a responsibility. Every apprentice’s path passes through his hands, and the house holds him to account for it. That is why one enters rarely, and stays long.
The way of the workshop is not a lesser way.
“[The Parties undertake] to encourage continuous professional training and the exchange of knowledge and skills, both within and outside the educational system”Faro Convention · art. 13, dCouncil of Europe Framework Convention on the Value of Cultural Heritage for Society, Faro, 27 October 2005 (CETS No. 199), art. 13, d. The English and French texts are authentic; ratified by Italy by Law No. 133 of 1 October 2020.
The path in brief.
- Door
- Apprentice and master of the craft
- How
- Admission by pact, under the nizam ad-dar
- Where
- Riyāḍ al-Uns, Fez · Al-Funduq aṣ-Ṣiqillī, Sicily
- What one brings
- The craft, the tools, the rule