We rightly associate Martin Luther King’s oratorical eloquence with his vocation as a Baptist minister, following his father and grandfather...

That nurturing practice was called poiesis . Until about a hundred years ago, the cultivating and nurturing practices of poiesis organized ...

A. Durer, Melancolia I, detail , 1514 Art  itself derives from a root that means to “join” or “fit together”—that is, to make or craft, ...

I must write down that I am to be an artist. Not in the sense of aesthetic frippery but in the sense of aesthetic craftsmanship . . . The wo...

You need not see what someone is doing to know if it is his vocation, you have only to watch his eyes: a cook mixing a sauce, a su...

the dominant note of an education in a liberal democracy should be the cultivation of freedom, not of employability. We rightly want people ...

Keats, as sketched by his friend Joseph Severn (1821) . . . The common cognomen of this world among the misguided and superstitious is ...

The word playwright is in the same etymological family as that of a shipwright, a cartwright, a wheelwright. The words shipwright, cartwrigh...

It is because wisdom arises from activity in the world that Athena combined wisdom not only with war but also with the arts, industry, a...

The standards of achievement within any craft are justified historically. They have emerged from the criticism of their predecessors and the...

Octavio Paz by Arturo Espinosa In craftsmanship there is a continuous movement back and forth between usefulness and beauty; this back-a...

John Sokol , word portrait of Thoreau (1982) We seem to have forgotten that the expression “a liberal education” originally meant among...

Marianne Moore by Luis Quintanilla        What is a college? a place where freedom is rooted in vitality, where faith is the substance...

In God’s eyes, the differences of social position, of intellect, of culture, of cleanliness, of dress, which different men exhibit, and all ...

I think technique is different from craft. Craft is what you can learn from other verse. Craft is the skill Seamus Heaney by Edward McGui...

It cannot be repeated too often that nothing is more fertile in prodigies than the art of being free ; but there is nothing more arduous tha...

When the psalm sings instead of the singer, When the script preaches instead of the preacher, When the pulpit descends and goes instead ...

Finally, there should grow the most austere of all mental qualities; I mean the sense for style. It is an aesthetic sense, based on admi...

Perhaps the old academies were right after all: don't learn by copying nature, copy art. It's not that nature gets it wrong, it...

To live together in the world means essentially that a world of things is between those who have it in common, as the table is located bet...

The best way to understand craft, I believe, is to think of it as a conversation flowing through time. Or, more precisely, as a recent edd...

. . . whether he knows it or not, the intellectual workman forms his own self as he works toward the perfection of his own craft; to realiz...

And this is what we have to do with all our labourers; to look for the thoughtful part of them, and get that out of them, whatever we lose f...

" Deliverance from a Gilded Cage " (1994) . . . the case for craft education at the college level should be addressed to a gen...

scribendi recte sapere est et principium et fons ["the source and fountainhead of good writing is right thinking"] – Horace (1...

One becomes a crafty reader by learning the craft of reading. I believe that it is in our interest as individuals to become crafty readers, ...

Patrick Haines Caught – the bubble in the spirit level, a creature divided; and the compass needle wobbling and wavering, undecided. Fre...

So what is the bargain you're establishing to be? A holding environment? That's what Winnicott calls it, and a classroom is also k...

In a reasonable graduate seminar, you don’t expect students to copy it down and repeat whatever you say; you expect them to tell you when ...

When Love with unconfinèd wings    Hovers within my Gates, And my divine  Althea  brings    To whisper at the Grates; When I ...

We are trying to learn thinking. Perhaps thinking, too, is just something like building a cabinet. At any rate, it is a craft, a "handi...

In the struggle, Robben Island was known as the University. This is not only because of what we learned from books, or because prisoners stu...

It seems to me that education has a two-fold function to perform in the life of man and in society: the one is utility and the other is cult...

Whether we know it or not, the question of politics is always present when we speak of the problem of freedom; and we can hardly touch a sin...

Sometime look at a novice workman or a bad workman and compare his expression with that of a craftsman whose work you know is excellent and ...

William Blake (1791) illustration to Wollstonecraft's Original Stories from Real Life Contending for the rights of woman, my main a...

I do not want art for a few, any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few. – William Morris (1877)

When one finds in schools a climate that makes it possible to take pride in one's craft, when one has the permission to pursue what one...

. . . the crafts Plato most frequently used are ones that have objects on which they work, on which they carry out their function. The objec...

The time will come when every kind of work will be judged by two measurements: one by the product itself, as is now done, and the other by t...

For we cannot win a true victory unless there exists in this country a large body of liberally educated citizens. This is a war for freedom...

Isolated from the people who carry them out, programs, practices and pedagogies seem to have little impact. What matters instead is who meet...

The first great advantage of an arts and humanities curriculum is that the typical objects studied in it teach students both to recognize i...

Craft is a starting place, a set of possibilities. It avoids absolutes, certainties, over-robust definitions, solace. It offers places, in...

Education for human freedom is also education for human community. The two cannot exist without each other. Each of the qualities I have des...

Thirty years ago, the English scientist and novelist C. P. Snow talked of the 'two cultures' of contemporary society. Management, ho...

The Chinese have come to believe the mantra of many American colleges that the best leaders are those with the broadest education in the lib...

You can write only with your brain . . . good writing depends on extensive reading . . . To write, you need first to read . . . everything y...