DESTROYING A PAPER MACHE DUCK.

DESTROYING A PAPER MACHE DUCK. I was catching up on news about our families with a friend of mine recently, and he mentioned that his son had taken up painting as a hobby and was good at it. I suggested to my friend that he might try painting too since it ran in the family. He said that he had learned over fifty years ago that he couldn’t do art. When he was eight, he had found his report card, which said his drawing was “immature.” I said that maybe the teacher was too harsh. She was tough, he said. She once destroyed another child’s paper mache duck in front of the class because it wasn’t good enough.