Charlie Self wrote:

The second phase of the problem with school tools is that very soon
there will be no more. I live on the edge of what until recently had
been a world center for furniture making. The schools in this area have
phased out woodworking, for the most part. They'll teach the kids how
to build a house, but not how to build a chair or chest or table.

That's a real shame. I remember woodworking class fondly, although I
did get an "F" for putting tacks on the teacher's chair :-).

I took woodworking one year, metal shop another, and print shop another.

Remember heating soldering irons in an oven? Or setting type by hand?

And the only power tools in wood shop were a bandsaw, a drill press, and
a big sander (which claimed the tip of one of my thumbs). Everything
else was hand tools.