The notion of education through handicrafts rises from the contemplation of truth and love permeating life's activities.
Poverty when coupled with creativeness is usually free of frustration. This is true of the poor artisan skilled in his trade and of the poor writer, artist, and scientist in the full possession of creative powers. Nothing so bolsters our self-confidence and reconciles us with ourselves as the continuous ability to create; to see things grow and develop under our hand, day in, day out. The decline of handicrafts in modern times is perhaps one of the causes for the rise of frustration and the increased susceptibility of the individual to mass movements.
[Science is] the labor and handicraft of the mind.
Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts.