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Really? The current US education system seems to "churn out" fewer people with useful vocational skills ("20th century factory employees") than ever before.
by listenallyall 10y ago
Really? The current US education system seems to "churn out" fewer people with useful vocational skills ("20th century factory employees") than ever before.
- losteric 10y agoYep, we've seen years of cut-backs on the vocational side because parents believe their kids must go to college... so we're left with a system designed for the era of straight-out-of-highschool vocational workers, operating in a parental environment that sees college as an absolute necessity, and labor market where most of those degrees equate to expensive GEDs. Terribly inefficient. The whole system warrants refactoring. K-12, tradeschools, internships/apprenticeships, college, med/law schools, adult retraining, enlistment, officer training... it's a ball of spaghetti. We need to review each component and the overall system through the lens of modern societal and economic needs.