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If you like this, Crawford's book-length treatment is called "Shop class as soul-craft", and is generally worth a read.
by hprotagonist 7y ago
If you like this, Crawford's book-length treatment is called "Shop class as soul-craft", and is generally worth a read.
- spthorn60 7y agoDittos. Rather philosophical, but definitely worth working through.
- d_burfoot 7y ago+1. I think the book would be much more popular if it were not for the clunky title, which is a tribute to George Will's book "Statecraft as Soulcraft".
- jseliger 7y agoIt's a good book. We encourage too many people to be abstract symbol manipulators and encourage too few people to work with their hands (or hands and mind together): http://seliger.com/2017/06/16/rare-good-political-news-boosting-apprenticeships/ http://seliger.com/2017/06/16/rare-good-political-news-boost.... It's got to be pretty obvious not just to me, but to just about any intellectually honest person teaching at non-elite colleges and universities that a whole lot of people are in them who take out lots of student loans but get very little out of the process.
- geomark 7y ago"...hands and mind together..." mens et manus - does MIT really practice that or is it just a motto with no action behind it?
- hprotagonist 7y agoYou need hands to breed yeast or test mice or splice genes. Probably not what you had in mind, but plenty of wetlab work gets done on campus every day.
- jboggan 7y agoGreat book, read it several times and gifted it several more. His second book "The World Beyond Your Head" is much deeper and even more insightful. I hope he continues to probe and write like that.