If we believe everyday work to be mindless, then that will affect the work we create in the future.
people are needed to do everyday jobs if we consider them to be "dumb or stupid" what good are we making future generations? we are confing them to a box
Western Hemisphere,
what is it like in other Hemispheres? how did we get school to be the drive of intelligence here?
problems are isolated and in the latter they are embedded in the real-time flow of work with all its messiness and social complexity.
isolated, just like school work. a problem is give that you already know how to solve. What happens when you don't know how to solve the problem because it's outside the lines that school taught?
Though work-related actions become routine with experience, they were learned at some point through observation, trial and error, and, often, physical or verbal assistance from a co-worker or trainer. I’ve frequently observed novices talking to themselves as they take on a task, or shaking their head or hand as if to erase an attempt before trying again.
sometimes best teacher is just doing it yourself and learning
the body from the mind,
we forget to put them together. We were created for both to work in sync.
find problems to solve
Leads me to believe that school makes many feel like it's all crammed. We all do the next thing and then stop, here he finds the problems to solve. He wants to solve them.
eneralizations about intelligence, work, and social class deeply affect our assumptions about ourselves and each other, guiding the ways we use our minds to learn, build knowledge, solve problems, and make our way through the world.
we have been lead into misassumptions. Peoples minds work different ways, but we have fallen short on teaching the physical work of the real world, which also, helps build knowledge, solve problems, and make our way through the world.
the type of schooling a person has, how much and how long—and most people seem to move comfortably from that notion to a belief
we are told we need high education to succeed in life and if we don't succeed in school then we are good for nothing. But maybe it's just a belief?
work smart, as she put it, to make every move count.
"every move count". His mother still had to work smart and strategize even though she wasn't in a "real" job.
world of adults, a place where competence was synonymous with physical work.
"Competence was synonymous with physical work" It requires both in a "world of adults". You can't just have competence, both it and physical work work side by side to truly build someone.