On art

How do people learn to draw? I mean SpaceCoyote even posted an example that improvement is possible, but how do you GET THERE? She even says "as my teacher would say, 'Practice does not make perfect -- PERFECT practice makes perfect.' If you keep doing things the wrong way over and over again, chances are, you won't go far." So how do you learn the right way? Who teaches real drawing and not just still life or copying models?

Sometimes I hate Florida.