Is vocational education that teaches a trade as valuable as a college degree? Is an electrician equal to a teacher?

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I think so. We need all kinds of workers in this country, from the unskilled to the highly skilled, and everything in between. Now, if we could just get them all employed!

I personally don't want to know how to repair my own car; so to me, an auto mechanic is very valuable. I also don't want to wire my house; which of course places high value on someone who can. Even as far as teaching--I could teach my own kid, I'm sure, but I'd rather just supplement what the education that the "experts" gave her.

They have all spent years educating themselves in their field of expertise; they have something that I don't have, so I must pay them what that expertise is worth. They are all valuable to me. But you didn't mention celebs and atheletes in this equation!

Are they equal? .

A really good teacher is an invaluable asset to society. She or he can prepare a lot of electricians and a lot of doctors and a lot of engineers and a lot of musicians and artists. How many sucessful businessmen/women made it without an education?

Okay, Bill Gates was a Harvard drop-out.

Suppose every MBA in the world took a week vacation at the same time. What would be the consequences? Now suppose every garbage collector took a week vacation at the same time.

Who is more valuable? ">>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>How fast could you hire a thousand replacement garbage collectors? Home Depot?

How fast could you hire one bio-chemist in the midst of cancer research? This idea that education is not important to our society is insane. I wish these "lemmings" would line up and walk off the cliff already.

Yes and no. Different people have different aptitudes; and different people have different desires from life. For example; I've made a lot more money with my trade apprenticeship than with my college degree.

Granted, I am now using both; but the trade skills have quite a head start. As for the whole equality question: consider: suppose every MBA in the world took a week vacation at the same time. What would be the consequences?

Now suppose every garbage collector took a week vacation at the same time. Who is more valuable? .

It's also situational. If I need my dryer wired, a teacher is of no value to me at all. If I want to learn to speak Italian, an electrician is of no value to me at all.

You're talking apples and oranges, with too many subjective ways of evaluating an occupation's worth. It's also situational. If I need my dryer wired, a teacher is of no value to me at all.

If I want to learn to speak Italian, an electrician is of no value to me at all. Having a variety of trades and professions is vital to any thriving culture, so any means of educating and training we can provide are valuable. More means = more value.

Less means = less value.

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Yes and no. Different people have different aptitudes; and different people have different desires from life. For example; I've made a lot more money with my trade apprenticeship than with my college degree.

Granted, I am now using both; but the trade skills have quite a head start.as for the whole equality question: consider: suppose every MBA in the world took a week vacation at the same time. What would be the consequences? Now suppose every garbage collector took a week vacation at the same time.

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