in the shop or the house of their master, share meals with a “surrogate family,” and spend the daylight hours working by the side of an expert craftsman. Until trust was established, a frightening part of the apprentice’s new existence was his total dependence on the one he barely knew but was seeking to imitate, to become. Apprentices learned their new trade, their new way of living, by mirroring their master. And it is interesting that this plan for gradually learning a craft through experience and