The “Highly Educated” class literally exists only because of the SKILLED HANDS of the TRADESMEN of this world. The lights we see by, the auto brakes that stop us on time, the jet engine that takes us from here to there, the electric gred and/or generators that keep the hospital electronics running are what keeps us alive and in one piece.
Without the greasy hand of the elevator maintainence guy, there wouldn’t be a building over FOUR stories is the country.
When a customer, a single hour ago, walked into my shop to have his watch repaired after driving SIXTY miles, I know something really screwed up. This posting really hits the target.
True, but a lot of that stuff was invented and designed by highly educated engineers based on principles developed by highly educated scientists. The rest were developed by self-educated engineers and scientists (like Thomas Edison with the lightbulb and Michael Faraday with the principals behind the generator), but I wouldn’t call them tradesmen.
We need both, which is why the decay of our universities is a real problem.