[TheForge] industrial education

[Andrew Vida]

Grant Marcoux wrote:

> Interesting how modern life requires one to be obedient vs. skilled

	Indeed.
> 
> There is a really cool book called "Better Off", written by a man who, with
> his family, lived in a community that even by Amish standards, was
> primitive.  They had no electric or motor power and the heavy work was done
> by animals connected to many types of machinery.  Most noteworthy was the
> fact that most of the children, boys and girls alike, were skilled with
> livestock handling and food processing operations by age 12.
> 
> It wasn't so much that they worked hard as much as they worked smart.

	While not a Luddite, I do question the deep seated presumption that 
technological advance is always good, right, and wanted.  People build 
their own prisons, gilt or otherwise.