Thinking With Our Head and Hands
from Thinking Out Loud Hosted by Nathan Rittenhouse & Cameron McAllister
In a helpful piece for Front Porch Republic, Doug Stowe makes the case that teaching young kids to work with their hands can help them to discern between fact and fiction in an age of increasing misinformation. The painstaking process of working within the boundaries of the material world makes us less gullible when it comes to deception and far-fetched claims because we’ve made tangible contact with reality. One of us is an example of hands and head knowledge and one of us is more of a symptom of our time. We leave it to you to figure out which is which.
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