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It'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 toget
by jseliger 7y ago
It'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.