Excerpt from Forbes:
"Throughout most of U.S. history, American high school students were
routinely taught vocational and job-ready skills along with the three
Rs: reading, writing and arithmetic. Indeed readers of a certain age are
likely to have fond memories of huddling over wooden workbenches
learning a craft such as woodwork or maybe metal work, or any one of the
hands-on projects that characterized the once-ubiquitous shop class."
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http://www.forbes.com/sites/nicholaswyman/2015/09/01/why-we-desperately-need-to-bring-back-vocational-training-in-schools/