❝The craftsman is a man perhaps more of action than of contemplation. He grasps the world with skill and intuition. He is not an idea of the world but an experience of it. His prayer is walking the pilgrim trail. He works within a tradition and has become so at ease with his material world that his works have a relaxed fluency won through long, hard apprenticeship. At various times in recent history technical skill has been seen as somehow less than academic attainment or raw aesthetic sensitivity. The result is a population that sends a high proportion of its young people to university to study theory and design but has to recruit technicians from abroad. A craftsman does a job well. Whether the job is building a boat, programming a computer or parenting a child.❞