https://doingwhatmatters.com/apprenticeships-and-skilled-trades-offer-an-alternative-to-college/ Cultivating creativity, wisdom, and virtue in education, entrepreneurship, and soul care. Mon, 31 Aug 2015 18:51:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://doingwhatmatters.com/apprenticeships-and-skilled-trades-offer-an-alternative-to-college/#comment-20672 Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:14:05 +0000 http://www.janice-campbell.com/2007/11/13/apprenticeships-and-skilled-trades-offer-an-alternative-to-college/#comment-20672 I’m so glad to hear it was encouraging. It’s hard to imagine why abilities of skilled tradespeople (most of whom are probably kinesthetic) are so undervalued– we certainly couldn’t survive without them!

]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/apprenticeships-and-skilled-trades-offer-an-alternative-to-college/#comment-20671 Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:33:58 +0000 http://www.janice-campbell.com/2007/11/13/apprenticeships-and-skilled-trades-offer-an-alternative-to-college/#comment-20671 I forwarded this article to my sister who has a child in high school who has always struggled academically but loves to be “doing” things and excels in things like band and astronomy (lots of hands on observation). I thought I would share with you what she said: “Oh! I nearly cried when I read that article! Thank you. Thank you for thinking of T and enlightening me. I’ve never known what to say to him, how to encourage him. He is definitely a kinesthetic learner.”

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