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[David Childress]

In my job training courses in grad school (learning to teach the
courses) they claimed different countrys want different end products.
In Europe they want people to be able to go to work out of High School
and earn a living.  I japan they want to supply middle managers to
business (bacholors level degrees). in the U.S. they want people in
grad school.  They are all pretty good at producing what they want.
But if your track isnot the one that is important to them your are
just out of luck.  In the U.S. most of us are out of luck.  Vocational
training is about gone.  Practical college training is going.(don't
you know that engineering is just the first step into upper
management.  The average degreed engineer works in his feild for three
years and then moves on.)  The rest of the world comes to the U.S. to
get their Phds and the educators think this is how it should work.

David Childress
Rocky Forge Blacksmith Guild

On 6/11/08, Larry Brown <lp.brown at verizon.net> wrote:
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> Instead we barely teach the three R's and have closed most voc/tech programs
> in schools. I had shops in Jr. High, 6 - 9th grade and in High school.
> My son now 17 and just graduated from HS has never been in one.
> They don't even teach the computer engineering, although the computers are
> there and the kids are playing solitare.
> L Brown
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> > It would be wonderful if our high schools could track the mechanically
> > dexterous kids and, after they were taught to read and write, get about
> > training our next generations of visually and spatially gifted designers
> and
> > artisans.
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> > There are people out there who REALLY want to learn this stuff.
> >
> > Grant
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