Wheel of Learning We believe that we offer a unique approach to both the education and the training at Lansdown Pottery. So often both the art and the craft lessons in schools are undervalued and often under threat. There seem to be fewer opportunities open to most people today with courses being closed and funding removed. We feel that we have a strong holistic approach that allows the student to gain not only the practical experience of making, decorating and firing a pot, but to find a practical application of many other subjects learned in the classroom. When we learn any subject, be it in a classroom or a workshop, we become involved in a process. It is very easy to isolate and compartmentalise what we learn and fail to see how things relate to one another. In this Learning Wheel it is easy to see how these subjects are very closely related to each other in the craft of Pottery. Most importantly, are the interpersonal skills and transferable skills, which are of value to everyone.

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"All this of Pot and Potter -- Tell me then, Who is the Potter, pray, and who the Pot?"
- Omar Khayyam ("The Tent-Maker"), The Rubaiyat (st. 87), (FitzGerald's translation)

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