Thank you for your comment. Your right they did help, in their own way! And whether they meant to or not that's why I don't regret going to them! I agree I don't think the two go together that well either, I'm sure an art history course would be fine but that's completely different. And as far as the tutours go I would have loved them to be artists themselves making it in the world, however they weren't, they didn't even do an art form themselves so I didn't quite understand how they could judge us on ours.
I agree, it is a hard thing to teach and shouldn't be based on a metric rating system where you get good or bad grades, I would love to see that change!
Just to digress a little, I feel like it's the same for photo critiques: it doesn't particularly matter whether the critic is right or wrong when they analyze an image - what's important is listening to the critique and deciding for yourself whether it's right or wrong, and why.
I definitely agree with you, I think you do have to take what you can from it all, and if you don't agree with them that's fine too, but criticism is good when it's required!