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SOULCRAFTING

Handmade Brain

Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work (The Penguin Press, 2009)
I read this book a few years ago. I really found it inspirational and feeding my own reflexion. Author Matthew B. Crawford questions the educational imperative of turning everyone into a "knowledge worker".
Shop Class as Soulcraft…makes some compelling arguments about the link between independent thinking, self-reliance, and working with one's hands…. perhaps it's time to start relearning independent craft skills that integrate both the head and the hands”—Newsweek.com

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