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Just a friendly FYI, "sow" means to plant a seed, or an adult female pig/other animals (pronounced like "now"). "Sew" means to "join, fasten, or repair (somethi
by will_pseudonym 8y ago
Just a friendly FYI, "sow" means to plant a seed, or an adult female pig/other animals (pronounced like "now"). "Sew" means to "join, fasten, or repair (something) by making stitches with a needle and thread or a sewing machine."
- ghaff 8y agoNo that a little bit of gardening would be a bad idea either :-) There are tradeoffs certainly but I've come to believe that high school should have a track that covers, for lack of a better term, "adulting." Cooking, sewing, shop, personal finance, statistics, etc. And most of those can be mixed in with more academic subjects. I've done machine shop stuff at research universities and I've taken a Harvard MOOC on food science.
- will_pseudonym 8y agoI definitely agree. I learned how to sew as a kid for example from my mom, but I sort of dropped it after I realized it wasn't "something that boys do" at the time. All of those functional skills would be so much more useful than a lot of things I was taught in school. There are "adulting" classes now that demonstrate the obvious gap in our education system. [0] Fortunately, the generation that was born with YouTube will be a lot better off, because the amount of things you can learn to do from watching YouTube videos by experienced people is astounding. [0] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/adulting-classes-teach-millennials-basic-skills-like-sewing-cooking-and-how-to-deal-with-relationships/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/adulting-classes-teach-millenni...