[TheForge] Industrial arts (long and boring response)

[Dave Brown]

At 09:41 01/27/02 -0700, you wrote:


>northwoods wrote:
>
> > > The empire is indeed crumbling.
> >
> > Is that something akin to "the sky is falling"?
>
>         Not even close.

But it sounds close, especially when considering the proliferation of 
Technical Schools and Colleges.  It may be a somewhat demonstrable loss 
that certain basics are no longer as readily available in Middle School and 
High School.  But the Technical Colleges and schools, at least here in 
Wisconsin where Tony Clark and I are located, are doing a booming business 
and are expanding by leaps and bounds.  The High Schools are still planting 
the kernels of interest and fostering such inclinations and the Technical 
Schools are doing polishing.

I've been in Freehold, NJ, and if that city was the brush that painted my 
view of the world ... well, then, I'd be dismal as well.  That may be the 
key to your jaundiced eye.  <friendly grin>

Dave Brown