"There is an education industry in this country that feeds itself. It is way too expensive, way too much nonsense taught having nothing to do with what someone needs to know for their career, and I dont even have to explain the political bias we all know."
Currently I'm trying to get a private Christian boys school off the ground in my small hometown that will focus on science, technology, economics and commerce. Preliminary inquiry says there is a lot of potential there.
It's funny how far a private or homeschool or even a good public school education can get a young person these days. Couple that with being savy with math, tools, and having some practice using them, and the future for boys can be made much more profitable than going to college and getting a degree they most likely won't use.
I try and tell parents how much demand there is for patternmakers--even with Computer Assisted Manufacturing--and they usually don't want their sons to learn a trade. They believe a college degree should be the goal. And it is for the parents.
A lot of boys and adult males would rather work outside or in a shop or small business than go to college and waste their time and money.
A lot of boys who left school early are really first class self taught mechanics and craftsmen who earn a lot more, and are a lot more happy, than college graduates with crappy, essentially dead end jobs.
Boys who learned the so called hard way, which is a lot more fun, will survive and prosper much more so than a vast majority of college grads seem to in our working world.
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It seems a lot of parents don't want to think of their son as a tradesman. Even though the tradesmen I know make more then the college grads I know. Also people who graduate your future school and know some commerce can start their own business. Which trades are a perfect gateway into. My uncle got his electrician's certificate a long time ago. Then got some experience and started a construction business with some friends. Hes a multi-millionaire today.