[TheForge] Fw: Stonehenge

[dan tull]

Dave,
Brings us back to teaching blacksmithing. Often a student will ask "Why not 
this way?" so to keep from stifling curiosity, I have often said "try it" 
knowing it wouldn't work that particular way, but hoping it would open up a 
new path."  This is A way of doing it, not THE way.  "Because we have been 
doing it this way for 40 years." will not fly anymore.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David E. Smucker" <davesmucker at hotmail.com>

> For innovation to work it requires the freedom to think about things in
> somewhat new ways.  I am always reminded about this when I think about a
> young engineering asking me over a beer in a small German hotel why we
> couldn't move a fully assembled 400 ton rolling mill stand.  I replied "I
> don't know lets see how it might be possible."