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Recommended Reads: "Sloyd Education Theory: Making Things With Your Hands Makes You Smarter "

As a person who appreciates beauty and craft, I never saw the slightest hint of benefits of handicrafts towards learning and personal cultivation. Rain Noe of Core77 writes about the Sloyd education theory, a system of handicraft-based education. In it, he quotes from Otto Salomon, a revolutionary Swedish educator in 19th-Century, that: 

"Objects badly made or badly proportioned, and yet nicely ornamented, are really exceedingly ugly. It is far more important that children should be able to judge when models are well-designed than to be able to decorate them."

The quote brings me to think of design and its common interpretation, which design being mostly about decorating and making something look good. Like what Salomon has implied, there is a distinction between well-designed and well decorated. Perhaps, the lack of Sloyd education in many modern cities are the cause of people being unable to be appreciative of well-designed products, or even things that do not reveal its immediate financial benefits.

To read the full article, follow this link: http://www.core77.com/posts/58789/