“Part of the solution may lie in early child education, but a more immediate solution to growing the economy is restoring strong “trades” education to high schools.”
This!! This xxx 1000!
In the 70s, we had career week at school where we studied and discussed different professions and trades and had speakers (locals) come in to give 15 minute talks on their career path.
At the end of the week, we completed a questionnaire that was submitted to our career and counseling department (consisting of one lady and her assistant intern) and a few weeks later each student received a response pointing out their strong points and suggesting several career opportunities. Our graduating class was approximately 200 (small rural county). Very few were destined for college and most actually ended up in one of the careers suggested. I know I did.
My career opportunity fell into my lap in the early 80s during a time of high unemployment and I took the job at minimum wage just for the opportunity. I retired from that career just over two years ago (no college degree), after years of good pay, and with a nice monthly retirement check. This was something I thought I would never qualify for given I grew up a poor dirt-road girl and the daughter of two parents who were also dirt-road children.
We need to stop sending everyone to universities for degrees in ——studies that are useless and return to looking for strengths in individuals and directing them on a career path in which they can excel according to their own interests and strengths.
However first, we have to teach them to read and write.
“studies that are useless”
They are far worse than useless. The “studies” programs do nothing but teach victimhood, grievance mongering, protesting, rioting, dissatisfaction with life, hate white people, and hate America. They are designed for weak, pliable, moldable minds and lazy people. There is no professional or trade path for these people other than teaching the same crap to others.
None of these completely useless studies programs existed before the GD government stuck its nose in higher Ed to make it “affordable.”