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RE: It's A Roof 🛖 & An Injury-Free Construction Site 👷♂️
Oh wow... Respect for the Amish built house! I bet it must have been much more sturdy than the typical American home, slapped together with stick-frame and drywall!
Of course the attitude of doing something just "good enough" can be seen all over the world. In Hungary there is a new word jóvanazúgy meaning exactly that, where you can see all kinds of horrible examples of construction fails. But even in legendarily precise Germany the culture is aware of builders cutting corners. There is a surprisingly funny film about that called Was nicht passt wird passend gemacht, with the English title: If It Don Fit, Use a Bigger Hammer.
Oh, regarding math skills, I noticed it on myself how pointless it is to torture students with the theory if it remains unconnected to applications. Seriously, have them plan and build things (with their minds and hands), or apply geometry in sailing / navigation, or surveying the topography, or anything practical. Otherwise the conceptual theory will never make sense. At least in cases like myself, where I had to literary rediscover geometry in applications, years after learning about it in school.
Typical American homes barely last 50 years because of that, but my boyhood is brick and still standing to this day, bu that's not the norm. Now I've got a new word in the vocab, jóvanazúgy, how beautiful there is a word for this, I don't think we have it English, perhaps the word adequate doesn't have the same feeling.
I was horrible in school as a kid, and I was lucky enough to attend a wilderness guiding school for several years, where experiential education was the focus. Learning to use math for orienteering, construction, or other practical things is so much more engaging, totally agree.
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