This is why America is failing. None of these are trades or skills that you learn in a university. You learn these through apprenticeship, and creating new “masters” by taking classes is just naïve.
Yep, we have failed to show people the respect they deserve for good, honest work. Young people now think they all need to go to college and after years of classroom instruction and mountains of student loan debt they cannot name the ONLY president of the CSA, don’t know lose from loose and think their, there and they’re are interchangeable, use are for our, have no clue whether to use its or it’s, don’t recognize the name Magna Charta or Battle of Hastings and on and on, in short most could not pass a test to get INTO a high school of the 1950’s.