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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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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
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- 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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So, so great! :) Thanks for having the courage to trust little ones, they are so capable and need this so much in an age of over-protection.
ReplyDeleteThey do need to be trusted and they do like to please.
ReplyDeleteThe kids were taking it very seriously, and were really trying to please, as you mentioned. And the safety lessons you taught them were basically the same ones I taught the students at the community college.
ReplyDeleteMario
Mario, we always seem to injure the hand not holding the tool. So the challenge is always keeping it doing the right thing and out of the way. Using the block of wood in the vise narrows the range of motion, so it keeps knives from making wide arcs through the woodshop.
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