Founder’s Mission

When I look around me at the older men whom I aspire to be like, I notice a common trait in each of them. They all have skills which were passed onto them by their fathers or grandfathers, maybe they apprenticed someone, or grew up in a culture which valued craftsmanship. This kind of upbringing in a culture which values skills and craftmanship has faded away in the age of information. Boys are not learning the critical skills they need to successfully become men. They are growing up in a culture that distains manliness and calls in “toxic masculinity”. The result is boys who mature out of childhood but do not become men. They become useless, dependent, and uncreative liabilities to those around them, especially their families. The cycle begins again when they raise children without passing down any valuable skills for life to them. The family suffers when the father is inadequate. This is tragedy.