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[quote=Anonymous][quote]I agree. There is a gap somewhere. But, people who go into trade today still need better skills than they did 30 to 50 yrs ago.[/quote]

I'm not sure what you mean by this.  Today there are so many more sophisticated tools that make things easier in the trades.  I don't think you need "better" skills so much as you need different skills.  And, to be honest, some of the skills that you had to learn in the "old days" led to a more conceptual understanding because you didn't have a calculator, laser level, etc. to work things out.  You had to really understand what you were doing. For example, I had to use a slide rule and, believe me, you have to know what the numbers mean, scientific notation, etc. in order to use one of those.

I'm not dismissing what you have to know to be in the trades now, but there are many tools and materials that didn't exist before that make the labor a lot faster and more efficient.  Just having the internet has made a huge difference in learning things on the fly (of course you have to be able to read and think through things).  I'm not sure the word "better" is apt---it's certainly different. I think schools have vastly undervalued the trades as a way to get students to think more critically and to learn math and physics.  Sad really.[/quote]

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