Saturday, March 12, 2016
Three actions
To recover industry and bring back proper use and payment for SKILLS, we need three steps.
(1) Bring back tariffs and borders.
(2) Eliminate environmental laws and lawsuits that make real industry impossible. Dissolve the EPA, delete "endangered species" laws. Return to FACTUAL science.
(3) Radically cut universities, replace with tech training and apprenticeships.
None of these steps are new or experimental. We know all of them work because we were DOING THE RIGHT THINGS from 1936 to 1974. During that period we had prosperity and "well-used" skills.
Trump and Sanders are both handling (1)tariffs pretty well. Trump appears to understand (2)EPA but doesn't talk much about (3)education. He seems to follow the usual Repoof line against Common Core, which puts him on the wrong side. Sanders is murderously wrong on both (2)EPA and (3)education. Sanders wants to destroy even more industry with harsher EPA rules, and wants to make college even crazier and more mandatory.
Free trade and environmentalism began TOGETHER in the '70s, two coordinated fronts in a genocidal war on nations and sanity and civilization. The drive toward useless abstraction began MUCH earlier. Reposting a 'manifesto' by John Anderson, who took over as president of K-State after a revolt against abstraction by populist farmers in 1873.
Emphasizing the last paragraph:
"Whatever else may yet need to be tried, there is no use in repeating the experiment of flying a literary kite with an agricultural tail, so often made in various quarters. It is a pleasant regential and professorial amusement, and quite attractive to an immediate locality; but there is nothing in it for the industrial student, whose estate pays for the kite."
Anderson managed to fight the trend for a while, but eventually K-State surrendered to the literary kite.
Here's a more modern manifesto by a Brit businessman, with specific guidelines for increasing apprenticeships.
And a different approach from an American scientist, who understands the problem accurately.
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All three returns to sanity need to move in synchrony, otherwise there's no point in doing any of them.
Emphasizing the last paragraph:
"Whatever else may yet need to be tried, there is no use in repeating the experiment of flying a literary kite with an agricultural tail, so often made in various quarters. It is a pleasant regential and professorial amusement, and quite attractive to an immediate locality; but there is nothing in it for the industrial student, whose estate pays for the kite."
Anderson managed to fight the trend for a while, but eventually K-State surrendered to the literary kite.
Here's a more modern manifesto by a Brit businessman, with specific guidelines for increasing apprenticeships.
And a different approach from an American scientist, who understands the problem accurately.
= = = = =
All three returns to sanity need to move in synchrony, otherwise there's no point in doing any of them.Labels: Experiential education, skill-estate
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