Monty Python’s Shop Class

by Russell Arben Fox on July 12, 2009 · 1 comment <span>Print this article</span> Print this article

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As so often seems to be the case, the Monty Python troop somehow managed to make Matthew Crawford’s point about the enduring value of working with your hands decades before the rest of us realized that a bunch of self-proclaimed meritocratic supermen were going to take over our economy.

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avatar A.B. Sartin July 30, 2009 at 3:28 pm

Monty Python put an even finer point on it with their “Working Class Playwright” sketch, early in season 1-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOSi8zja-3Y

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