To add, craftsmanship is synonymous with experience (gleaned or direct). It means that when you start a project, you know exactly what sort of problems will co

To add, craftsmanship is synonymous with experience (gleaned or direct). It means that when you start a project, you know exactly what sort of problems will come up (both for you the craftsman and the customer's use of it), and know what you need to do up front to attempt to mitigate them. In any craft, watching a craftsman work displays a large amount of vision and foresight right from the very start, knowing what parts to do first, and what rough sketches need to be completed up front. All of these decisions feed both into making the craftsman's job easier through the process, and are tuned around envisioning what the end user wants from the product and might try to do with it even if it's not part of the explicit requirements. It looks like black magic to the uninitiated, with a bunch of random seemingly non-essential stuff happening, with all of a sudden a great product being birthed at the end. There's no good way to bring all that experiential knowledge into a simple curriculum. Apprenticeship is the primary way to accelerate bring somebody up to a level of craftsman, after the basic fundamentals are known. This is a primary failing of modern companies; they don't allow for such internal paths of progression. Everybody's expected to be an expert craftsman straight out of university. (cue my rant about university & academia NOT being about job training)