08-15-2024, 06:16 AM
This post was last modified 08-15-2024, 06:25 AM by FlyingClayDisk.
Good! Great news!!
Hands on experience is invaluable in the real world. Colleges today are WAY overrated for what they produce. I look at course material today compared to when I was in college back in the 80's and I see dramatic differences. Much of the first two years of college now is what I would characterize as 'remedial' (i.e. stuff students should have learned in HS), and the balance of it is 'indoctrination'. College used to be about education, but now it is more about ideology, which is completely different. I could understand this if a college/university was a religious institution, but these are state funded universities I am talking about here.
Plus, tuition costs have gone completely off the rails. College has now become a massive for-profit enterprise at the expense of true 'education'. Some healthy competition is a good thing, a very good thing.
Anecdotally, the skilled trades sector is severely under-resourced right now as well. There is absolutely no shame in taking the skilled trades path as a career choice, and people can often earn as much if not more than in the white collar sectors anymore. Plus, what is considered 'white collar' today has been blurred; the bar has been lowered, with wages following suit. The skilled trades sector doesn't have this problem because it is the skill which defines the level of the bar (and the associated wages). Skilled trade wages have done nothing but go up. Programs such as these open these doors also.
BTW - Your embedded video does not work, but the link to the video below it does work.
Hands on experience is invaluable in the real world. Colleges today are WAY overrated for what they produce. I look at course material today compared to when I was in college back in the 80's and I see dramatic differences. Much of the first two years of college now is what I would characterize as 'remedial' (i.e. stuff students should have learned in HS), and the balance of it is 'indoctrination'. College used to be about education, but now it is more about ideology, which is completely different. I could understand this if a college/university was a religious institution, but these are state funded universities I am talking about here.
Plus, tuition costs have gone completely off the rails. College has now become a massive for-profit enterprise at the expense of true 'education'. Some healthy competition is a good thing, a very good thing.
Anecdotally, the skilled trades sector is severely under-resourced right now as well. There is absolutely no shame in taking the skilled trades path as a career choice, and people can often earn as much if not more than in the white collar sectors anymore. Plus, what is considered 'white collar' today has been blurred; the bar has been lowered, with wages following suit. The skilled trades sector doesn't have this problem because it is the skill which defines the level of the bar (and the associated wages). Skilled trade wages have done nothing but go up. Programs such as these open these doors also.
BTW - Your embedded video does not work, but the link to the video below it does work.
