Richard Sennett The craftsman The hand
“The hand is the window on to the mind,” Sennett cited Immanuel Kant 's sentence.
"Thinking is making" is the main idea of his passage, he illustrates and analysis his idea from different aspects in his passage.
When people talks about craftsman, they usually limited them just into art or craft area, but Richard conclude musician, doctor and cooks as craftsman, which I can't agree more.
Also he writes that what we see by eyes are limited by a fame, like a picture, but what we feel from hand give us more importation.I partially agree with him about that view: When we touch something we can know the temperature, the real texture and the weight which could give us some information, that we could not gain from eyes. But I feel that we can't separate 'looking" and "touching", because that is a Continuous process of cognition. Most time we can not touch something without seeing it, if we touch something without seeing it, we gain much lesser information than what the action "touch " usually could gain. The way Richard analysis touching, which for me is kind of Isolated and subjective.
He mentioned the Suzuki Method in his passage, he argue that kid con not play well without the tape. I remember when I was a kind and play violin, I have been trained with Suzuki method like one month. I remember that when I look the tape to locate the location of fingertip, my brain is being lazy, I just push the tape, which makes me feels that I'm just a machine to press the taped spot. The most bad thing about Suzuki method is play in that way will kill the nature of music, which is be free to use the instrument as a way to express the emotion, play in that way I feels that violin is playing me. I'm a machine to pinch it.
"Thinking is making" is the main idea of his passage, he illustrates and analysis his idea from different aspects in his passage.
When people talks about craftsman, they usually limited them just into art or craft area, but Richard conclude musician, doctor and cooks as craftsman, which I can't agree more.
Also he writes that what we see by eyes are limited by a fame, like a picture, but what we feel from hand give us more importation.I partially agree with him about that view: When we touch something we can know the temperature, the real texture and the weight which could give us some information, that we could not gain from eyes. But I feel that we can't separate 'looking" and "touching", because that is a Continuous process of cognition. Most time we can not touch something without seeing it, if we touch something without seeing it, we gain much lesser information than what the action "touch " usually could gain. The way Richard analysis touching, which for me is kind of Isolated and subjective.
He mentioned the Suzuki Method in his passage, he argue that kid con not play well without the tape. I remember when I was a kind and play violin, I have been trained with Suzuki method like one month. I remember that when I look the tape to locate the location of fingertip, my brain is being lazy, I just push the tape, which makes me feels that I'm just a machine to press the taped spot. The most bad thing about Suzuki method is play in that way will kill the nature of music, which is be free to use the instrument as a way to express the emotion, play in that way I feels that violin is playing me. I'm a machine to pinch it.
