More young people need to learn a trade. It’s a slog to begin with but there’s no limit to the earning potential because of the demand for skilled tradesmen.
More young people need to learn a trade. It’s a slog to begin with but there’s no limit to the earning potential because of the demand for skilled tradesmen.
Though of course the problem there is once demand goes down, the earnings will be depressedOriginally Posted by Marc Overmars
But either way, we should be doing more in terms of teaching skilled trade
When will demand go down?
Re: Private schools? Do they actually provide a better education? They seem to teach people how to pass exams and the people they’ll schools spit out seem to do better in life either because of the old boys network or the prestige which comes from having been to “an Eton”. Are the people actually more competent? John Cleese said something about how people are taught to talk confidently about things they don’t understand. Which is a pretty useful skill if you want to get ahead. But they’re not more competent and making better decisions. We’ve seen how having old Etonian PMs has worked out
The reason demand for skilled labourers like Plumbers are high is because we don’t train enough of them. Forty years ago, Plumbers, Lorry Drivers etc earned peanuts but because there was an over correction in getting more people into academia it went the other way.
School is about teaching you how to pass exams, how much learning you do is dependent on how intellectually curious you are in order to understand not just the what but the how and why. I don’t think we necessarily give enough credit to rote learning.
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