Re: 1958 Crisis in education

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From: nob... Scott
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2018 08:16

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On Mon, 16 Jul 2018 20:46:10 -0700 (PDT), Quadibloc
<jsa...@ecn.ab.ca> wrote:

>On Monday, July 16, 2018 at 8:29:12 PM UTC-6, J. Clarke wrote:
>
>> And now we disdain vo-tech as "the dummy track" and don't have
>> "commercial" programs at all in most schools.
>
>What's the point of teaching kids to do jobs that either are done in China or are 
>done by computers? The educational system can't take the place of the economy.

What, jobs like auto repair, welding, machining, carpentry,
pipefitting, woodworking, heavy mechanics, aviation? All of those
things done in China by computers? Those are the programs that are
disappearing. Heck, how about someone to give you a shave and a
haircut, or a style and dye? We used to train them, too.

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