On Mon, 1 Mar 2021 23:13:28 -0500, "John Grossbohlin"
wrote:

"pyotr filipivich" wrote in message
.. .

Was pondering the whole "it is good to learn the manual skills
first" school of thought, and made the analogy to writing vs
keyboarding. Not a smart statement to make in the hearing of an early
childhood education specialist B-). She pointed out that children at
that age learn "though the hand." They need to use their hand to make
the shape as part of how they learn the letters. "So much for that
idea."

She might find Doug Stowe's "Wisdom of the Hands" blog interesting. He is an
advocate of educational Sloyd. Without using the formal Sloyd process I used
that approach with my sons from the time they were very young.

Same with drafting - you don't need to know how to set an ink pen
in order to use AutoDesk, Catia, Solidworks, etc. Just know that line
thickness and their meanings were settled (in Court). You do not need
to know about descriptive geometry to understand the origins of 3rd
Angle projection vs 1st angle projection, just know that they are
there.

I took two years of "mechanical drawing" in school back in the '70s. I was
good at it... Flash forward nearly 5 decades and at best I sketch
woodworking projects out on a yellow sticky note pad, an envelope, or maybe
a piece of printer paper. My drawing board and tools seldom see daylight. I
don't use any CAD software either. This as I only need some key dimensions
and proportions and the rest I build to fit as was common in the 18th
century. My point: What design tool you use should be dependent upon the
type of projects you build, how much detail you need, how dependent you are
on machines, jigs and fixtures, and how well you can visualize how things
will go together. We are all different in that respect.

Sometimes planning things out in too much detail leads to the
paralysis of analysis. I've got a project right now that if I had
just _done_ it would be long done, but I started drawing pictures . .
..