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<blockquote data-quote="Zeno Marx" data-source="post: 574129" data-attributes="member: 1211">Some handy people and fix-it folks aren&#039;t much in the teaching department.&nbsp; I know it is viewed as a common skill to teach, but I&#039;ve found it definitely is not...usually not.&nbsp; That&#039;s a whole discussion though.&nbsp; It&#039;s great to have the mindset of &quot;you CAN do it&quot; handed down, but &quot;this is how you do it&quot; is a whole other ball game.&nbsp; It&#039;s crazy to me how underrated, and undervalued, being a good teacher is.&nbsp; &quot;they&#039;re a dime a dozen.&quot;&nbsp; No, they aren&#039;t.As an aside, I came to the conclusion a couple years ago that some of the greatest graduation and &quot;next phase of life&quot; gifts are tools.&nbsp; With the great tool of youtube itself, giving tools as gifts has such great potential.&nbsp; Even if the person isn&#039;t naturally mechanically inclined to fix things, they can look it up on youtube and hopefully figure it out.&nbsp; And if nothing else, in a time of real need, they can sell the tools and pay a bill or some of rent or whatever.&nbsp; Of course, having in mind that the tools you&#039;re gifting aren&#039;t the cheapest Harbor Freight versions but the quality of tools someone can grow old using.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Zeno Marx, post: 574129, member: 1211"] Some handy people and fix-it folks aren't much in the teaching department. I know it is viewed as a common skill to teach, but I've found it definitely is not...usually not. That's a whole discussion though. It's great to have the mindset of "you CAN do it" handed down, but "this is how you do it" is a whole other ball game. It's crazy to me how underrated, and undervalued, being a good teacher is. "they're a dime a dozen." No, they aren't. As an aside, I came to the conclusion a couple years ago that some of the greatest graduation and "next phase of life" gifts are tools. With the great tool of youtube itself, giving tools as gifts has such great potential. Even if the person isn't naturally mechanically inclined to fix things, they can look it up on youtube and hopefully figure it out. And if nothing else, in a time of real need, they can sell the tools and pay a bill or some of rent or whatever. Of course, having in mind that the tools you're gifting aren't the cheapest Harbor Freight versions but the quality of tools someone can grow old using. [/QUOTE]

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