My feeling has long been that most programs find it easier, for a myriad or reasons, to produce (incompetent) designers and actors rather than well trained technicians. Heck, even my alma matter has instituted a "you can't only major in Theatre" rule, which to me just admits failure of a program, but a willingness to keep taking people's money. De-skilling is only part of a bigger societal problem. But that's just how I feel.
Luckly there are vocational schools in school districts now teaching this stuff and the harder stuff. The one here in town teaches how to run heavy construction machinery. Without the intro in middle school and high school though I doubt theses programs will survive.
I wish I had taken advantage of that when I was in school. But I was pushed by my tech teacher and guidance counselor that since I was planning on going to college that it was a waste of my time and I wouldn't gain anything valuable from it.
Or, in the case of English, write it. http://www.controlbooth.com/threads/cb-technical-forum-or-english-class.8599/... That is the other thing... the language thing needs to die. No one is learning a language and is acutally [sic] able to speak it. ...
My favorite quote from an introductory college class, "Don't let your schooling get in the way of your education."gets the hell out of your way and allows you to push your own envelope
As a long-time professional and as a professor I can tell you that most of the technical skills we teach you today will be outdated in 10-15 years, or less.
I would argue shop class AND home economics would be a ton more beneficial over a language... but the language thing sticks anyway.
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