From an interview with designer Barbara Alves about teaching in Mozambique.
For example, students in the graphic design course asked me to give them lessons in color, insisting they knew nothing about it. This really surprised me. My immediate answer was, “But you should teach me! You’re surrounded by color and use it in such powerful ways in every aspect of daily life. I admire you for it!†Their response was to laugh and say, “But Teacher! That’s not design! We need to use design colors.†From talking to my students and people in the cultural sector, I got the impression that design was this distant, quite artificial, field they had to adapt to.