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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.”
I’ve actually been pleasantly surprised how much my son has been able to practice and learn about welding this year. Agriculture and skilled trades are huge in their high school and they have a partnership with the local tech school
The US used to have excellent vocational training for manual trades. It’s a shame to throw that competitive advantage in the toilet.
US soldiers in WW2 who were skilled at improvised repairs of hot rods and farm equipment used to mock the Germans for their ineptitude at repairing their own gear.
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 …
A significant amount of it was weakening labor unions, which, for years, were one of the primary recruiters into the skilled trades.
Or ... the unions weakened domestic manufacturing to the point that it was globally uncompetitive. The next gen of workers and entrepreneurs rationally tilted towards the info economy. Unfortunate generational loss of manufacturing talent.
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