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The whole country has suffered immensely from the incentive- and culture-shift that caused most schools to remove an array of shop and trade classes
I think part of the reason so many US entrepreneurs are building companies where the product is software or new business models is that that's the stuff our culture seems to value. But we could *really* use more plays in hardware and industrial process improvement
Right now, the kids who win at the education game are pretty likely to have never built anything beyond legos and camp/scout crafts; we're forgetting that physical products matter, and that a lot of them can't have wide margins of error and still be competitive or even usable
The very subtle difference between “everyone is middle class” and “everyone is bourgeois.”
But modernized. Less woodshop, more makerspace. Learn to prototype. Learn to collaborate. Amazingly, I had an applied physics class that was like that. Our final was to build a RC plane from scratch in groups.
That’s true, but I can’t help thinking about how disposability has reduced some of the incentives to learn how things work. I’m glad I was endowed with (or maybe cursed with) a sentimental attachment to antique electronics.
A lot of this was driven by the educational-industrial-complex that sought to minimize vocational education in favor of university degrees because we were going to become a "knowledge society" forgetting that you need someone to build and maintain what you want or have.
Have you read Shop Class As Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Workhttps://www.amazon.com/dp/0143117467/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_CObJDb6RKTG28 …
Was just having drinks with a college friend who’d made his beer bottle opener in a metal shop class! I was jealous.
Peter Thiel thinks of this as “atom vs. bit innovation”, and encourages the latter based on “we wanted flying cars but instead we got 140 characters”
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