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Let’s hear it for vocational ed

If we’re lending money that ostensibly we don’t have, to kids who really have no hope of paying 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.

Author Greg RavenPosted on December 16, 2013November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories educationTags Mike Rowe

“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.” — Thomas Paine

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