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.
Monday, July 30, 2007
We had a busy day at the Diablo Adult Education center working on children's rockers. We started the morning with lecture and discussion of furniture design and had fun with the golden proportion detectors. At this point, the students are designing and carving the backs for their chairs. Most have the rockers shaped and we are beginning to cut the mortises in the back legs. In the photos shown below are students at work and a view of the fine woodworking facility.
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