This blog is dedicated to sharing the concept that our hands are essential to learning- that we engage the world and its wonders, sensing and creating primarily through the agency of our hands. We abandon our children to education in boredom and intellectual escapism by failing to engage their hands in learning and making.
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Today at The William Ng School of Fine Woodworking, the students learned to cut box joints, hidden spline miters, two other joints and countless other things. At this point in the class, I can look in any direction and see that my students are "getting it". By tomorrow, I may be exhausted, and they will be ready to go on and on without me. As I was told one time years ago, "a teacher's job is complete when his students surpass him." Fortunately, I learn a few things from them as well!
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