I am convinced that a lot of machinists are tactile learners
and cannot count the number of times that students have told me, "I learn
best when I can have the real thing to figure out as opposed to reading
the
manual". My guess is that a lot of the people in this group are of that
ilk.

I sure know that with welding, I can show a guy more in a day than he can
get in a week out of a book. I don't think it's so much the people with
such things as welding or machining, but books would be better on such
subjects as medical or surveying or astronomy or more thought related
activities.

Steve