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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
As a country we would be far better off if we dropped funding completely for about half of all courses at a Bacholer level and took all those students and sent them to trade school, we would be better off with a strong manufacturing base than a vast pool of tertiary jobs at starbucks employing hordes of communication majors.
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The "strong manufacturing base" ship sailed and sunk under an iceberg decades ago. I'm not saying trade schools aren't important, but if anything we should be loading up on maths, science, and information technologies courses and curricula and looking towards dominating those fields, as that is where the money and jobs are now and into the future. Of course, first you have to have a society that favours those things rather than accountants, bureaucrats and entertainers (not that those aren't important too, but none of them really create wealth as opposed to redistributing or administering it).