| Tagline | This blog is dedicated to sharing the concept that our hands are essential to learning- that we engage the world and its wonders, sensing and creating primarily through the agency of our hands. We abandon our children to education in boredom and intellectual escapism by failing to engage their hands in learning and making. |
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| Listed since | 11/17/2008 12:01:50 PM |
| Active | Yes |
| Site URL | http://wisdomofhands.blogspot.com/ |
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| Last updated | 1 day ago |
| Language | English |
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deliberate practice
My readers will find this article from Forbes to be interesting, and perhaps this quote also from Louis Pasteur, leading it, "that chance favors the prepared mind." https://www.forbes.com/sites/david
1 day ago
September, 2006
At my wife's suggestion in 2006, I launched the Wisdom of the Hands blog with this blog post: Independent schools like Clear Spring serve an important role in education. https://wisdomofhands.blogsp
2 days ago
No True Wealth but Life
"Let the youth once learn to take a straight shaving off a plank, or draw a fine curve without faltering, or lay a brick level in its mortar, and he has learned a multitude of other matters which no l
3 days ago
building the body
I got an interesting email from a reader noting the value of my new book to his newest passion, playing semi-pro football at the age of 58. He was introduced to my writing by a football coach and for
4 days ago
Box making at CSS and beyond
We've been making a series of small boxes in wood shop at the Clear Spring School and the photo shows but one example. This one is made to display student made tops. You show a student a box and the s
6 days ago