Quotes From "Shop Class As Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into The Value Of Work" By Matthew B. Crawford

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Both as workers and as consumers, we feel we move in channels that have been projected from afar by vast impersonal forces. We worry that we are becoming stupider, an begin to wonder if getting an adequate grasp on the world, intellectually, depends on getting a handle on it in some literal and active sense. Matthew B. Crawford
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When the point of education becomes the production of credentials rather than the cultivation of knowledge, it forfeits the motive recognized by Aristotle: "All human beings by nature desire to know. Matthew B. Crawford