Book Review

I just finished reading Matthew Crawford's Shop Class as Soulcraft and I have to say that despite an affinity for casting about fancy words, Mr. Crawford makes tremendous sense.  In fact, I wish all those who are in positions of influencing education policy would read it.  The gist of Shop Class as Soulcraft is that we have, as a society, gone too far down the path of separating thinking from doing.  In the rush to accommodate the "Information Age", shop programs and the like were gutted from public schools.  This was a huge mistake in the sense that it virtually eliminated any alternate paths to what we think of as a satisfying or successful career and life.  It will make you want to read up on Aristotle and his ideas of a stochastic art or techne.

I invite you to take a look at this book and think about the implications for our society.  There is merit in Mr. Crawford's argument that should be seriously considered.