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Unread 11-11-2015, 20:50
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Re: Trying to develop holistic curriculum. Need assistance.

This is difficult, and in some places impossible: find a shop teacher. I mean it.

It's one thing to do CAD till zero dark thirty visualizing some marvelous machine, and quite another to build the thing to the vision. And critique and tweak the engineering drawings into something you can actually build...

Shop teachers have the skills in their hands and head that will get you started, or at lest tell you what you don't know and then what you need, and the sources to acquire it.

It's beyond unfortunate that we have in many places thrown out vocational education and its curators, thinking we will send all kids to the university.

PS- having access to a shop classroom with all the weird gear and such would be nice too...