A thought-provoking article in Plough Quarterly about schools that teach students how to work with their hands, and also teach the liberal–one could say the liberating–arts.

This is a lot like what I do with my students. As a professor, I teach classical texts, ancient languages, the history of ideas, field ecology, and world religions.

But that’s not all.

I also teach my students how to build things. (That link is to a GIS story map of things my students and I have built on our campus.)

Education should be for the whole person, and for the whole of life. Building even one thing with your hands prepares you to build the next thing, or to fix what has already been built.

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