Scott Galloway discusses vocational education for youth (Part 2)

Woman to join a fraternity or sorority. Zeta Beta Tau shrank an unfriendly place of 30,000 people down to a group of brothers who in their own way cared about one another. Within a week of pledging, my big brother told me to stop smoking so much pot and reduce my class load from four to three to ensure I did well my first quarter and gain some confidence. Common sense advice which I lacked as a 17 year old male who'd never spent more than seven days away from home. Without a network of other men serving as guardrails for me, I likely would not have graduated. Since the 1990s, preparing our kids for college has become entrenched in our DNA as the fundamental step to a brighter future for them. The rigid emphasis on national exams and $200,000 liberal arts degrees has crowded out vocational education as a path to success and stability. Parents shouldn't worry about children who opt for woodworking versus computer science. Instead, we should worry about men who choose day trading and pornography over building, creating and repairing. Vocational training in Germany is a pre employment system for youth imbuing skills in kids at a young age even if they decide to pursue college. Establishing a household without debt and a marketable skill is key to building a foundation for a family and relationships. Some of our greatest citizens were apprentices, including Washington surveyor Franklin Printer and Revere silversmith. We need to sustain investment in this type of training along the lines of Biden's $150 million apprenticeship building program. Four year colleges are still and will likely always be a tangible path to upward mobility. We should use the leverage we have over them as their primary financiers, I.e. taxpayers, to break a corrupt higher ed cartel and expand freshman seats. I wrote about this two weeks ago. Our fight over affirmative action and legacy admissions misses the forest for the trees. We know.