tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34011427.post8178129181090651300..comments2024-03-26T07:00:11.620-05:00Comments on Wisdom of the Hands: History from ThingsDoug Stowehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13003845322415622289noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34011427.post-68096542773119185572010-06-05T07:29:15.307-05:002010-06-05T07:29:15.307-05:00You are right about a reading and verbal emphasis,...You are right about a reading and verbal emphasis, and I would also add math skills that go beyond what we need. Schools only care about teaching what is needed to pass state requirements, which means we teach to pass the test. This is not so much the fault of the local districts as much as it is the politicians who place restrictions on us that have been invented by some "educational expert" with a doctorate who never taught more than a year or two if that in a public school.cbolyardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03678815070130416727noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34011427.post-36018744553912306142010-06-03T18:07:01.678-05:002010-06-03T18:07:01.678-05:00Hi Doug,
Reading this post, and by free associatio...Hi Doug,<br />Reading this post, and by free association, made me think of a lovely book by Henry Petroski "To Engineer Is Human". If you haven't read it, I suspect you will enjoy it as much as I have.<br /><br />Henry's main thesis is engineering only progresses, not through success, but only through failure. The bridge that stays up is not as interesting as the bridge that falls down. If the bridge stays up, was it good luck or good design? If it falls down, then there is something to learn.<br /><br />I think that is very much true when I'm working in the shed - when I get a box hinge right, it's only because I've got quite a few wrong before.<br /><br />Anyway, thanks for your post today.Shanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09232548007552167131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34011427.post-35236625685998490382010-06-03T17:13:39.190-05:002010-06-03T17:13:39.190-05:00Yes! Objects, for those who can read them,are eloq...Yes! Objects, for those who can read them,are eloquent. Archeology, first, is the art of reading silent remains.Henrique Chaudonnoreply@blogger.com