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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.
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All of the materials used here are copyright Doug Stowe.
Photos of our students at work are published solely for the promotion of the Wisdom of the Hands program and Clear Spring School. Other uses are strictly prohibited and copyright will be enforced.
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Photos of our students at work are published solely for the promotion of the Wisdom of the Hands program and Clear Spring School. Other uses are strictly prohibited and copyright will be enforced.
Questions about Wisdom of the Hands can be addressed to
Doug Stowe
About Me
- Doug Stowe
- I have been a self-employed woodworker in Eureka Springs, Arkansas since 1976. I live with my wife Jean on a wooded hillside overlooking our beautiful historic community. In addition to work in my wood shop,I'm retired from teaching at the Clear Spring School in a program called "The Wisdom of the Hands." That experience is summarized in my book, "The Guide to Woodworking with Kids". My book "Wisdom of our Hands: Crafting, A Life" is my attempt to explain the importance of hands on learning. I also write for Fine Woodworking, Popular Woodworking and other woodworking magazines. My new book, Designing Boxes will be released on April 16, 2024. My resume can be downloaded at www.dougstowe.com/resume.doc
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- When do we learn the most?
- A warming spell
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- Hemsloyd and long winter nights
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- ice
- One of the benefits
- winter storm in Arkansas
- Exercises in Wood-Working
- rogues and vagabonds, John Ruskin 1883
- concrete to the abstract to concrete expression
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- today in the wood shop
- Robert Keable Row, 1909
- Big Picture Schools
- The future of art
- bailout for the arts? don't hold your breath
- More from Mrs. Ida Hood Clark, 1905
- Prescription for education, Mrs. Ida Hood Clark, 1905
- What happens when you are completely out of touch
- placing the ribs.
- An age of pretense
- starting to take shape
- the push to sell computers to kids
- Bodily Kinesthetic intelligence
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- Educational Value of Making
- A restoration of American values
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- Basic Box Making DVD download
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- waiting on cornbread.
- learning from reality in the wood shop
- Starting the boat
- What are "handles" really for?
- Mr. James MacAlister, Philadelphia, 1885
- This morning in the woodshop
- Hands, society and the golden mean
- Herbert Spencer 1883 "Education"
- Miss S. E. Blow 1875 on Kindergarten
- Mr. Edward Atkinson, 1881
- Charles H. Ham, 1886
- Henry Maudsley, M.D. 1884
- Educating for the exercise of possibility and chaos.
- Pestalozzi
- Bear with me as I attempt to explain
- On a visit to Clear Spring School, this is what yo...
- mindfulness of crafted objects
- World-wide loss of traditonal crafts
- To be an artist and the teacher of artists
- Progressive education theorists 1903
- Progressive education 1940
- What have I started?
- The best learning times are when things don't work.
- paper weaving and looms
- Anatomy and puppetry
- the sound of one hand clapping?
- Stand by me.
- Interesting download about hands
- Schlesinger's hands
- Today in the Clear Spring School Wood Shop
- let the force be with you?
- Estonian Folk tale box
- builder boards
- Pedagogy?
- Mosely Commision 1903
- Christ the carpenter's son
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- A Happy New Year, and give ourselves a hand!
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That is cool... wish I knew about them 5-8 years ago as I'd have made them for my boys!
ReplyDeleteWhat I like is that the kids seem unsupervised.
ReplyDeleteMy boys (and all the other kids from the neighborhood who hung out in our yard) would have loved these!
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