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A comment on Talk: Emily Pilloton: Teaching design for change

Nov 9 2010: There are so many great things about what you are doing - I hope other schools will follow your example. It's crucial, I think, to bring back shop class - and art class and home economics - because it is in these classes that kids experience the joy and challenge of making things by formulating ideas, developing designs, and overcoming the obstacles to realizing the physical manifestation, and this is the same essential process used in innovation in engineering, manufacturing, architecture, etc. Moreover, connecting the innovation to class projects that are meaningful for the community is brilliant.