From: schuldy@zariski.harvard.edu (Mark Schuldenfrei)
Message-Id: <9403112022.AA10745@math.harvard.edu>
Subject: Re: A Plot to keep our burough "members"
To: dagoura@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 1994 15:22:39 -0500 (EST)
Cc: carolingia@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <9403111919.AA16406@w20-575-47.MIT.EDU> from "dagoura@MIT.EDU" at Mar 11, 94 02:19:44 pm
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Tibicen wrote:
  I'm curious if there are people out there who would be interested in
  an apprenticeship program.  I was thinking of something more rigorous
  and study oriented than equerrying/demoiselling usually is.  Here at
  Mitgaard at the moment, we have a lot of people who don't know what
  they want to do, but who might (note qualifier) be willing to make a
  time commitment if there was something to commit to.  In the Barony,
  we have a plethora of skilled crafts people, who might be willing to
  formally teach.  
  
  What I have in mind would work much like a period apprenticeship; the
  apprentice learns a craft, and the master gets the dishes washed, the
  loom warped, the pots stirred, the onions chopped, etc.
  Apprenticeships would be of very limited length (say one semester),
  and wouldn't conotate the kind of personal, fealty relationship
  demoiselling does (though it would be a contract).  The apprentice
  would understand they were working for tutoring, and all products of
  their labor would be the property of the master (who might permit the
  student to keep them, etc.) who provides the materials.  There would
  need to be a realistic time commitment, such as an hour a week (once a
  month seems inadequate to me).  Apprenticeships could be renewed (if
  mutually agreeable), or the apprentice could try to get taken into
  another craft after his other apprenticeship was over.  Craftspeople
  could specifically get apprentices with certain projects in mind, e.g.
  a person planning on being Head Cook at an end-of-term event could
  train apprentices for that particular feast.

This sort of thing goes on all the time, Tibicen. It is part of fealty, and
our recreation.  What is the benefit of "organizing" it?

	Tibor