Saturday, May 30, 2009

The Case for Working With Your Hands

One shop teacher suggested to me that “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.”

True, but how do we fix it?

Read whole article here.