I routered the edges of a piece I was working on today. I'd never used a hand held router before. A friend helped me set it up and showed me how to use it.
It occurred to me at the time that I had no trouble asking for help. I'm familiar with tools. That familiarity gives me a confidence that makes it easy to admit when I don't know something, and to learn it quickly.
Adolescence is a time of low self confidence. Kids are trying to fit into an adult world where they are simply not ready to perform. Why are we not showing them how to DO things, hundreds of things? Knowledge may be power, but skill, almost any skill, is confidence. Confidence enables a person to go to the next square, to believe that they can accomplish the task at hand, and so to perform in the real world.
Isn't that what education should be?
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