Maybe that’s the point of the article? “We need to make stuff, not turn out more English literature majors.”
Please...our college grads today with dream of Obama “Hope” in their heads and their sense of entitlement to our tax money to support them, I highly doubt we’ll return to our hard working manufacturing prowess. Short of another American Revolution to return government to the people based on the principles found in the United States Constitution, we are screwed.
OTOH, if we have no factories then we would have no factory layoffs in a downturn, all the layoffs happening in other countries.