Courtesy of Mish.
Mike Rowe, host of the Discovery Channel series Dirty Jobs chimes in on the US education system in an interview with Nick Gillespie on Reason.Com.
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Rowe: If we are lending money that ostensibly we don’t have to kids who have no hope of making it back in order to train them for jobs that clearly don’t exist, I might suggest that we’ve gone around the bend a little bit.
Gillespie: We are doing everything we can to push every kid to go to a four-year college. What’s wrong with that?
Rowe: It’s not working. You have a trillion dollars in debt on the student loan side. You have a skills gap, something [interrupted by Gillespie]
Gillespie: What do you mean a skills gap?
Rowe: Right now you have about 3 million jobs in transportation, commerce, trades, that can’t be filled.
Gillespie: Anything from carpentry to electricians, plumbers,
Rowe: [interjects] Heating, electric, truck drivers, welders is a big one, jobs that typically parents don’t sit down and say to their kids – look if all goes well, this is what you are going to do.
Rowe’s advice is summed up in the following clip I took from the video.
Get Ready to Get Dirty
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