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You are right - education is important, if even for one's own satisfaction, but we need our trades people too. In many cases a plumber is more important than the lawyer.
posted by
adnohr
on January 23, 2016 at 2:10 AM
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PatB
Yeppers, fixing things looked after my family all my working life really.
posted by
WileyJohn
on January 22, 2016 at 3:14 PM
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Brilliant. And the Mother may be disappointed but education for educations sake is never wasted. The more educated the populace is, the better thinkers we have and the country is therefore run better. But I come from farming people and before that in England, carpenters, ship building and whatever. Huguenot stock before that. Hard working folk so I appreciate work that is done with ther hands. Maybe one reason i became an RN.
posted by
Kabu
on January 22, 2016 at 1:15 PM
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Pat
It's a very complicated issue! And your friend's son may well be a happy carpenter because he also has an education...
posted by
Nautikos
on January 22, 2016 at 12:19 PM
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So true Pat some go to college and get into a massive debt and what do they learn history and art. If they were to take engineering or something to do with future work where there would always be a shortage of staff,it might be all worth while. One could always study other projects as a hobby.
posted by
C_C_T
on January 22, 2016 at 10:45 AM
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