That differentiation between a liberal education and a vocational one is so artificial. So sad. Maybe I was exceptionally lucky to have been around people who did both, like my uncle who was a surgeon and a woodworker and built the stone retaining walls at his house. And it dawned on me not long ago that people ask me "how" I do all those different things like woodwork and playing music. But nobody has ever asked me why, which I think is a much more important question.
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.
Saturday, September 06, 2008
The following is from Mario Nunez, woodworker, teacher, drummer in Buffalo NY:
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