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ironically false dichotomy: mental v. physical

In economics, edumication on 23 January 2008 tagged coffee-spoons, community-college, education, manual-labor, mental-v-manual, mental-v-physical, schooling, shop-class-as-soulcraft, technical-education, vocational-education with no comments

I discovered the Smith-Hughes Act through “Shop Class as Soulcraft” (PDF)1

The Smith-Hughes Act of 1917 gave federal funding for manual training in two forms: as part of general education and as a separate vocational program. The invention of modern shop class thus serviced both cultural reflexes of the Arts and Crafts movement at once. The [...]