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Design Technology
D&T is about designing and making objects that will solve problems and make improvements. This has always been important to people and probably always will be. Our health, wealth, comfort and safety depend on how well things are designed and made.
Design Technology teaches you ways of coping with problems you have not met before. This is a good way of preparing you for a future full of changes and new ideas.
The activities of designing and making should be regarded as being at the fundamentak stage, every bit as important as reading, writing and arithmetic, and at the more advanced stages, as important as literature, science and history. Every child in every school, every year should be involved in designing and making activity, on the grounds that, in its own right, it is a very valuable educational approach.
(Extrat from the Stanley Lecture: A Coherent Set of Decisions -Sir Alex Smith, Royal Society of Arts, London)
Design Technology at St John's encourages boys to go beyond their first ideas and seek alternatives so that they may more effectively influence and control the environment in which they live. It will also help them develop such qualities as imagination, inventiveness, resourcefulness and flexibility. Industry and commerce need men with such qualities, but the boys as individuals also need these qualities in order that they may be able to challenge and change their own roles if life if they so wish.
