Also fascinating how so apparently humble a thing as setting guidelines turns out to be crucial, a place where intelligence, insight, experience, even creativity are absolutely essential. I’m interested in the relationship between guidelines and heuristics (to be fanciful, the relationship between, say, poetic form and one’s trained intuitions about poetic meaning), and I think that being in an experience where an experienced learner sets guidelines is one of the most valuable parts of an education. Note that this value is quite distinct from mere transmission of content…. Setting guidelines in a manner responsive to learner, situation, even local environment is something that’s best done by a human being, I’d say.