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To: Discoshaman

I agree with your comments but Hate the use of the word “craft” Teaching and raising kids should be “vocations”

Pottery is a “craft”


2 posted on 12/26/2011 8:26:48 AM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: yldstrk

“Craft” is Skill in doing something or making a thing of quality.

“Vocation” is from the Latin, ‘to call’.

One focuses on the quality results, the other focuses on the person teaching.

“Vocation”, called for a particular task or service, is not far in meaning from the word used for someone who takes on a task, who commits themselves to it, who undertakes to do job.

“Undertakers” can be an accurate description of SOME teachers.


14 posted on 12/26/2011 8:38:51 AM PST by BwanaNdege (“Man has often lost his way, but modern man has lost his address” - Gilbert K. Chesterton)
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To: yldstrk
Pottery is a "craft"

Semantics....mere semantics. The people who built this sort of stuff were referred to as "craftsmen"

As a (quite brilliant) engineer for the last 20 years who is 12 credits short of a degree, MGD is often heard to say, "School isn't the only place to get an education"

30 posted on 12/26/2011 9:05:45 AM PST by Mygirlsmom (Disgusted with it all.)
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