At the International Production and Processing Expo, there was a lot of poultry processing equipment and technology on display. Italian equipment manufacturers had many big displays. One may ask, "Why do the Italians produce so much equipment?" Their secret may be in how they educate their kids. Recently I visited a US kindergarten program based on an Italian educational model. The little kids were using real tools under adult supervision to make things out of cardboard boxes, old broken computer parts and lots of other stuff. They got introduced to tools and loved using them. Unfortunately, many kids are still playing with Legos as teenagers because they never had the opportunity to use tools. Legos are a great way to get kids started, but young kids need to progress to real tools.
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