Like Life Itself
AN EDUCATIONAL workshop, like any other genuine workshop, is a place where useful commodities are produced. Those who participate learn to use tools. They also learn how to work cooperatively, as a crew or team. From the very beginning, attention is centered upon a product. The test of success or failure is the product, the end result. Hence no artificial examinations are needed; no deceptive or fictitious incentives are required. A true workshop is an educational experience which is like life itself. The Graduate Workshop in Education conducted at Lewis and Clark College during the summer of I952 was a genuine workshop. Its participants set for themselves the task of producing two commodities, namely, a factual study of the recreational opportunities, resources, and needs of a near-by community, and a factual analysis of vocational counseling in the same community. For these purposes the principal tools utilized by the participants were: