With other words, the student must first learn how to learn. A mime, according to my standard, must transform its way of thinking first by very elaborated constant practice. We learn to think words in this culture. A mime must think movement, vision, images, non-linearly, and this process must be given unlimited time to explore. Only when this is mastered, we begin with the analytic work.
Later improvisation comes to enlarge the scope of the work.
One of our practices is to fast from words one day a week, to bring this to a habit, in order to penetrate the realm of the silence. Later, we shape this silence with movement giving it a multi-dimensional reality. I have such idealistic answers with words of one's expectations. With time, when the same student faces an actualization of working out its ideals, it gives up, drops out so to say, and that is because of that attachment of the words. One has to invest the self and all its resources to learn.