ART teachers think they know everything.

I recently did a photography assignment and i received my mark back today,
D+. His reasoning for this was basically that i didn't use any of his idea's that he put forward or look at other artists and copy theirs.

I honestly think my work was at least a pass with a C.

Our idea's are meant to be of our own, the way we interrupt things from our eyes, we shouldn't be looking at other peoples and go 'hey i like that. I'll use that in my assignment'.

Teachers are blindly encouraging us in to plagiarism.