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The reason Renaissance men were both brilliant thinkers and basic tool using & making craftsmen, tinkering, taking apart and making, is because critical reasoning thinking uses the same thought patterns and neural pathways of physical disassembly, improving & reassembly. The two, philosophical thinking and material making, reinforce and amplify each other.
In other words, Liberal Arts kinds of education are the poorer for not including Shop.Posted on January 3, 2010