Creative Impulse in Industry

A painter leaves his canvases in a field to perish—and people shaped by modern industry call him mad. Helen Marot begins with this startling judgment to ask what has happened to the joy of making.

Writing in the age of factories and machine production, Marot turns to educators with a challenge: work should be more than a task endured for wages. She recalls the craftsman’s chance to carry an idea through to a finished object, then contrasts it with the factory worker reduced to eyes, hands, or legs at the machine’s pace. If education simply prepares people to fit that system, their creative abilities may never get the chance to grow. Can schools and industry make room for workers to shape their work—and themselves?

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