Mike Rose — The Intelligence in All Kinds of Work, and the Human Core of All Education that Matters

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On Being : Mike Rose — The Intelligence in All Kinds of Work, and the Human Core of All Education that Matters Image

Mike Rose — The Intelligence in All Kinds of Work, and the Human Core of All Education that Matters

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“I grew up a witness,” Mike Rose writes, “to the intelligence of the waitress in motion, the reflective welder, the strategy of the guy on the assembly line. This then is something I know: the thought it takes to do physical work.” In all our debates about standardized testing and the information economy, the value of learning to work and the future of liberal arts education, we may risk too narrow a view of the way the physical, the human, and the intellectual blend in all kinds of learning and in all work that matters. Mike Rose’s expansive wisdom could enlarge our civic imagination on big subjects at the heart of who we are — schooling, social class, and the deepest meaning of vocation.