Modern people are shaped by their education to make and spend money. And education itself becomes a commodity: appeal to the consumer mindset, don’t make it too challenging, and remember: it has to be entertaining. But no educational vision that separates those who will use their heads from those who will use their hands is whole or healthy. The body cannot be healthy apart from the mind, nor the mind apart from the body. A complete education comes in reconnecting and reconciling the two.

A new crop of innovative schools encourages all students to use their minds and their hands.