"Most children pass through elementary and high school without so much as lifting a hammer. For the kid that touches that block plane, and starts planing on a piece of wood, that's magic. That experience is super-important for a middle school kid. That may never leave their mind."Thanks Reuben for the link.
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, January 02, 2008
The following link is to an article in MaineToday.com on a boat building program in Unity, Maine. Unity Boat Shop is a program designed to give children hands-on experience to initiate life-long learning. It is one of many successful boat building programs throughout the East coast. As stated by Steve Sheaffer, director of the Maine Advanced Technology Center at Southern Maine Community College in Brunswick.
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