daclark wrote:
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Education has failed in its fundamental responsibility to provide the
working class with marketable skills. Serving only the higher
motivations, education has become an obtuse bureaucracy that many
cannot and will not respond to. With higher education costing tens of
thousands of dollars, the working class is excluded, left to the mercy
of an ownership society. Apprenticeship is the missing ingredient, and
only apprenticeship can fulfill the responsibility and our obligation
to future generations.

I would submit it isn't "education" that has failed as much as it is a
failure in those who are not interested in seeing that their progeny
are, in fact "educated" in any form whatsoever and the social system
that has arisen allowing such to be supported by the state for
succeeding generations...
....
... Apprenticeship must involve each individual
in practical, financially responsible activities. ...
a lifelong, intellectual pursuit; that endows the 'journeyman'
with an immutable purpose, and creates equanimity between the
'artisan' and his material. ...

This presupposes an "apprentice" who has such a vision or motivation...

I submit there are those who do this innately and there will always be
those who simply do not have the ability to do so and that is unlikely
to change as long as the human specie is still around. A small
fraction could perhaps be "salvaged" by widespread application of such
a plan, but until one can change human nature in a widespread general
manner that hasn't happened since the advent of recorded history, it's
unlikely we will see a widespread cultural change.