re: For people who don't believe Egyptians could build pyramids

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Passing on knowledge is more than handing a kid a book. It is showing them how to swing a hammer or understanding the grain of wood and how it interacts with the tools. Perfecting something as "simple" as woodworking seems intuitive, but there's a lot of minutiae and nuance in the application of knowledge

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Go look at old antebellum homes. All will have intricately beautiful hand carved columns and fireplace mantles. Those were done by slaves. How people took unskilled slaves from Africa and got them to do that I have no idea but it’s truly amazing. Hardly nobody could skillfully recreate it today using simple tools