Originally posted by patrickt In my opinion, the reason the instructor in the OP has supposedly never tried digital is that he's terrified he would learn of the advantages and he would no longer be "special".
Sorry, but I think you're reading quite a bit into the original post that wasn't there.
Quote: In my opinion, an instructor today should teach with digital and the time that would have been spent on darkroom skills could be used for learning basic editing on the computer.
I agree with part of this. I do think that teaching darkroom skills is a thing of the past (unless it's part of a 4-year degree program), but I disagree with the opinion that digital is always a better teaching format. I think it really depends upon the teaching situation.