finger jointed drawer

I've made a finger jointed drawer using an interesting technique that begins indexing from both sides of the board and meeting in the middle, thus allowing a drawer guide to be added between fingers. A drawer facing will be added to hide the joints when the drawer is closed. As far as I know, this is a unique feature of my work.

I share this because it might be useful to others.

It is ironic that it has been so difficult for educators to understand the necessity of hands on learning and all the additional learning hours that students will apply when their passions are engaged. 

Essentially, folks learn for the fun of it, and schooling can deprive us of that learning by taking the fun out. 

Matthew Crawford wrote the book "Shop Class as SoulCraft" without ever having attended one. But he did use lines that I had shared through my blog as the epigraph of chapter one of his first book, and in the concluding chapter of his second. 

In Schools we create artificial learning environments for our children that they know to be contrived and undeserving of their full attention and engagement… Without the opportunity to learn through the hands, the world remains abstract, and distant, and the passions for learning will not be engaged. --Wisdom of the Hands blog post of October 16, 2006

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