What we do is rigorous and often we must deal with the unknown, and so must be guided by our intuition on a moment to moment basis in class.
Below is a quote from John Piazza. In it, he finds further support for the fact that running a class completely in the target language using comprehensible input is an art form. The discipline of the artist is something we all must have in order to be successful in this work.
Here is John on the subject:
Ben –
Here’s a quote from a book I just finished, which speaks volumes about the creative process, especially regarding the stereotype of the so-called bohemian artist and his/her lack of rigor.
“‘I always thought’, says LF [Lucian Freud the painter] ‘that an artist’s was the hardest life of all.’ Its rigour — not always apparent to an outside observer — is that an artist has to navigate forward into the unknown guided only by an internal sense of direction, keep up a set of standards which are imposed entirely from within, meanwhile maintaining faith that the task he or she has set him or herself is worth struggling constantly to achieve. This is all contrary to the notion of bohemian disorder.”
“Man With a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud”
by Martin Gayford. P. 130.