[TheForge] industrial education OT

[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

My favorite on the subject is " Mosquito Coast"....pf

Andrew Vida wrote:
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> Grant Marcoux wrote:
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>> Interesting how modern life requires one to be obedient vs. skilled
> 
>     Indeed.
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>> 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.
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>     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.
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