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Here is an interesting Forbes article on the merits of vocational training in high school as opposed to the college prep education. What are your thoughts?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/nicholaswyman/2015/09/01/why-we-desperately-need-to-bring-back-vocational-training-in-schools/
http://www.forbes.com/sites/nicholaswyman/2015/09/01/why-we-desperately-need-to-bring-back-vocational-training-in-schools/
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I think it would be a great idea, and not only for degrees, not everyone is going to want a degree but I would think that more then 95% of people want a viable skill that they can use to make a living.
Vocational training is something I have seen put to great use in the Philippines. We have been helping some of my wife's distant relatives over the years attend vocational training as cosmologists, auto mechanics, midwifes and dental helpers (a step below the college educated dental assistant). Its not always about the smarts, its about what is affordable to help someone get a step up.
As we are one of the greatest nations in the world, we need to invest in our people, especially our returning veterans who need some new skills besides warfare.
Vocational training is something I have seen put to great use in the Philippines. We have been helping some of my wife's distant relatives over the years attend vocational training as cosmologists, auto mechanics, midwifes and dental helpers (a step below the college educated dental assistant). Its not always about the smarts, its about what is affordable to help someone get a step up.
As we are one of the greatest nations in the world, we need to invest in our people, especially our returning veterans who need some new skills besides warfare.
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