“Kids 50 years ago were information-poor and experience-rich. They worked on the farm, or with their fathers as fishermen, they mended nets and hauled traps. Now they’re information-rich and experience-poor. As Justice Douglas put it, ‘Our culture turns out doctors of philosophy but no philosophers.’ It is sad.” – – Lance R. Lee, former Director of Apprenticeshop and wood boat builder
Lance R. Lee
“For there is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness in work… Properly thou hast no other knowledge but what thou hast got by working; the rest is yet all a hypothesis of knowledge.” – – Thomas Carlyle [1795-1881] Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher during the Victorian era
Thomas Carlyle
