Greece will introduce a new handicrafts course in primary schools aimed at reviving traditional Greek arts and promoting creative education, the Education Ministry said. The program, titled “Cultural Education – Creative and Handicrafts Workshops,” will include lessons in weaving, embroidery, knitting, and pottery.
Each school will create dedicated handicrafts workshop corners as part of the initiative.
The ministry has approved a budget of 4 million euros to purchase and install the necessary equipment and materials.
So far, the Education Ministry has declined to specify whether the handicrafts courses will be both for boys and girls or only for girls as some decades ago.
PS the usual mean Greeks criticize the project arguing that there are other important and really essential and practical things to learn in school nowadays such as First Aid courses, Behavior on the streets, social classes, cooking, household, gardening & veggies growing, painting and creative writing or fixing electric & water issues etc. Even more essential basic skill would be for pupils to learn fixing plaster ceilings in schools and avoid being injured, as recently in eastern Attica.
The real mean and usually suspicious Greeks, though, wonder who is the friend of the New Democracy government who is going to profit from the project and who has already purchased tons of threads, sack of clay and mountains of weaving tools .
And me as a practical human being just wondering where exactly the weaving machines and pottery utensils will fit into the small urban apartments.
BTW: when I was in high-school we, girls, head to learn “housewives skills” and one of them was to write down pages-long instructions on how to make a bed properly. One of the traumas I suffered in school & never overcome.
LOL
We had Domestic Science and the first thing we learned was how to make a toasted cheese sandwich. I don’t remember anything else from those 2 years. However our tostiera died in the summer and decades later I could spring to the rescue from my Domestic science days. It’s actually tastier than the tostiera so here goes – the secret is to butter the 2 slices on the outside, stick the cheese etc. in the middle and fry on medium in a tigani. Yummy, though more calories….
at least you learned something.
We had sewing, woodwork. metalwork. and cooking classes when I was at school – I can still make my own clothes, darn, embroider. I can chisel, use a wood plane, G clamps and a hammer etc, I can solder metal and remember how to make pastry, (puff pastry) cakes etc I am very glad of these lessons, We also did pottery in art class (also the art class was full of information, which I still use today, (unlike the Greek school art classes, which are useless)