| Slight digression, but a lot of people, in general (and it is implied in the article, which is why I mention it here) seem to think that the only way you learn things in college is through a professor's lectures. That's the tip of the iceberg.
Which is not to say that I entirely disagree with the article. I think that more emphasis on vocational training would do people good. But how do you decide who does it? My own school district had numerous voluntary vocational training programs (which still provided a good college prep education along with the training, so that students could still go to college if they wanted), but I'd be worried about a tracking system that separated students into vocational and college prep based on results of some middle school test, with the quality of the education received by the vocational students being inferior. |