When to start teaching...
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Originally Posted by
SteveLau
Hey, it looks like San Francisco is a place with high freedom! It lives up to the Amercian Spirit to the top.
lol. Indeed. It has it's plusses and minuses for sure.
Traditionally, you're not supposed to start teaching until your master gives you permission. However, that's one tradition that has collapsed here in America. There's no legal obligation that I'm aware of - but there is an ethical one. If some one is teaching a traditional art with out the permission of his or her master, there's an intrinsic contradiction. Tradition by definition is based on the handing down of something from generation to generation, so it's hard to claim being a traditional teacher without that link.