Shop Class as Soulcraft

The story of a philosopher who seems a bit surprised that there are so few job openings at the Big Philosophy Companies and ends up becoming an electrician instead.   After discovering that being an electrician is not really his calling, he moves on to being a motor cycle mechanic.  But he never gives up his college training of being a philosopher.  Matthew B Crawford fills all of his anecdotes with small asides of the great thinkers and uses as dry and technical a writing style as any college textbook. Shop class is mentioned only in passing and I don’t…

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