I'm on a perpetual intellectual diet of pottery videos. Education can go on in depth and indefinitely, via diverse videos from around the world, and old potters learn new tricks with the help of seminars, DVDs and my two free favorite sources, Youtube pottery channels and Ceramic Arts Daily.
The hands are mine, throwing a mug on the kickwheel I've used since 1985.
Simon Leach is perhaps the king of pottery videos. He has over 900 of them on Youtube, as well as a book recently published that happened as an outgrowth of the sheer number of his videos and the size of his viewing crowd. His vids are geared toward beginner to intermediate potters, but there are nuances in his teaching that benefit a longtime potter. For starters, he is super hardworking and has a seriously can-do philosophy. A third generation of the Leach family of influential British potters, he lives in Pennsylvania now and gives workshops in his studio periodically. I took a workshop with him (when he lived in the Catskills in New York several years ago) just to get the heck out of my basement. He makes good pottery tools you can order off his site, too.
Dan of Ingleton Pottery, Wales, is really great to watch at work. If you're a dyed-in-the-wool American, like me, his Welsh accent adds some flavor to the adventure. The pots have a classic and simultaneously earthy vibe. He throws with so much water it amazes me, but he also throws so quickly that the pots don't absorb so much that they collapse. Some of the forms he throws on the wheel, like the tureen (terrine) in this video, inspire me to push my comfort zone up a notch and try different things. I will never throw as quickly as Dan unless I get myself an electric wheel. Which I might just do soon...
A favorite of mine for his perfectionism is Hsin Chuen Lin, a California potter (160 videos and counting) who throws all sorts of forms meticulously. In contrast to Dan of Ingleton Pottery, Lin uses very little water, reusing the slip created by his throwing, instead, and remains clean as a whistle after throwing an 18" tall vase. Lin expends extra care perfecting the curve of the belly and the angle of the rim, and the results are impressively classic, yet surprisingly lively. I look at his videos and think, "Slow down, self! This is what you can do with focus and patience!" It's a contradiction to what I'm seeing from Dan at Ingleton, but why not? It's all (as I say in rare posts about inspiration, on my other blog) grist for the mill!
I just discovered and subscribed to Mark Peters's channel. The videos that are of him throwing have good music, and instead of talking through the demos he intersperses notes where they would be helpful. The vessels are pretty cool and most of the videos fairly short. (As an aside- He includes Isaac Button videos on his channel; if you haven't seen them, they're wonderful old footage of a master potter single-handedly mass-producing wares in England about 60 years ago.)
As for Ceramic Arts Daily, you can subscribe for free to receive excerpts of videos currently for sale, from all sorts of really good potters who also tend to be really good communicators. Although I haven't listed any women on my short list of three above, there are many excellent women potters to be found doing demos in pottery-making clips on Ceramic Arts Daily. It's a great resource
Learning, learning, learning, no matter how old we all get!