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I'm sorry to hear of your disappointing experience at college. Unfortunately there is a strong tradition of non teaching that relates back to the mentality that teaching technique stifles creativity. This has been embedded in the minds of so many generations of artists that is just continues to proliferate in colleges and art schools everywhere.
I have students coming to my class, like desert nomads finally stumbling onto an oasis, who are so happy to finally learn that there is indeed a methodology. Far too many teachers think that just propping a student in front of a canvas with a brush in hand will allow one to become a painter.
It's really sad that so many potentially great artists are turned off and thwarted never to manifest their talents simply because they were never shown a logical, basic and fundimental way to approach painting. It doesn't have to be this way.
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