Why pluck a string when you can strum the guitar?

Reading through the first chapter of Shop Class as Soulcraft really got my mind thinking on many different levels. Our class is full of college students (obviously) so reading this book will create quite the conversation in class, as it challenges a lot of what we have all grown up with. Our parents generally have all told us that going to college is much better than being a plumber and there is a societal expectation that we are to go to college to "make something of ourselves". I find it very interesting how there can be a huge disconnect with people working within the same company where one concentrates on the business side while another is working in the service part, they even made a reality tv show about this recently where the bosses act like new entry level employees in their business to see what it's like.

Growing up my father got me really involved in Boy Scouts and over the time I was involved I got a ton of merit badges some of which included plumbing, electricity and even atomic energy. With all of these we took a hands on look at how people worked in these fields (even visiting a nuclear power plant) and I have grown to have an appreciation for "blue collar" work. It's now ingrained in me that instead of giving up immediately when I have a problem, I try to work through things and I appreciate seeing how things work.

As a BTS major I often times see a disconnect between theologians who sit in their study all day trying to find God as the rest of the world keeps moving along around them (this sounds very much like a North Park thing to say). While there is a place for study, if it's disconnected from the real world, which it oftentimes is, then it becomes pretty useless. This is probably why Dietrich Bonhoeffer is such a bad ass.