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‘May I put in a plea for proper woodwork and metalwork teaching, now sadly replaced by design and technology classes?’ writes Roger Backhouse. Photograph: Garry Weaser/The Guardian
‘May I put in a plea for proper woodwork and metalwork teaching, now sadly replaced by design and technology classes?’ writes Roger Backhouse. Photograph: Garry Weaser/The Guardian
Mon 28 Dec 2020 11.14 EST
Last modified on Mon 28 Dec 2020 12.41 EST
It’s not just home economics lessons that are a good investment (Letters, 24 December). May I put in a plea for proper woodwork and metalwork teaching, now sadly replaced by design and technology classes? Those skills I learned in school have been invaluable in the 51 years since I left, more than can be said for differential calculus. They have saved me money, but more importantly have given me a deeply satisfying hobby of model engineering. A sno