Eight responses, from India, Canada, the US, and Australia, highlight pedagogical issues that are raised in the essay ‘Integrated Foundation Studio and Art History at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’. The comments includes questions of practicability, history of pedagogy, similar initiatives, and philosophic assumptions. (Responders are: James Elkins, S. F. Kislev, Yanai Toister, Matthew C. Hunter, Mark Piucci, Clare McCracken, Lucia Fagen-DeLuca, Sarah Magnatta, Anna Tahinci & Marion S. Lee)