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re: "Job Training"
Posted on 10/27/14 at 12:24 pm to Zach
Posted on 10/27/14 at 12:24 pm to Zach
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If he gets really good at it and applies himself he can own his own small business by age 30.
Under your plan (and some of the others), will Johnny be able to obtain skills needed to run his own business (such as bookkeeping)?
I agree that we've pushed college too hard onto people who simply aren't meant for it, while neglecting trades (at day's end, we all want our cars and our HVAC systems to run).
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Posted on 10/27/14 at 12:36 pm to Quidam65
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Under your plan (and some of the others), will Johnny be able to obtain skills needed to run his own business (such as bookkeeping)?
By 8th grade you should have the 4 functions down. Beyond that you can hire your uncle who graduated from HS. He'll do it for free beer.
Posted on 10/27/14 at 12:38 pm to Quidam65
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(at day's end, we all want our cars and our HVAC systems to run).
And while we still manufacture many things in the U.S. - construction trades and others like auto maintenance cannot be outsourced. Ditto for first line medical specialities that require no more than trade school - getting kids 2 years head start might make a very brief course all that's necessary to work as a pharmacy tech, X-Ray/MRI tech, etc. - jobs much better than normal unskilled work available to teenagers after high school. Better than wasting time and money on a traditional 4-year college if you have neither the time or money to expend on it.
Fully 1/2 of the 4-year degrees are vocationally worthless. I consider myself an educated man and classical education for its own sake has a certain amount of intrinsic value to society. However, I'm not certain of the wisdom of publicly subsidizing people who will have to work low wage jobs to pay back subsidized loans on a education that will not pay for itself in ROI.
Just my $0.02.
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