Well you did state “sounds like most humans are not properly equipped to use it’s mental attributes rather than it’s physical ones.” Which looks a lot like you are saying that most people are not equipped to use their brain. How else should we read this?
Surely it is a sad state if further education is only for subjects that lead to jobs? You are ditching most arts courses and much of the science curriculum. If someone has a passion for medieval French, or whatever, and gets a good degree in that - why is that bad? Most people do not really have any experience of the career they end up doing and even students doing courses specifically for a profession aren’t much equipped for those jobs until they get work experience. And surely they can ditch that career after university if they so wish. This notion of further education to lead to specific jobs has never been the case for most, nor should it.
Because their priority should be training for a job as soon as they leave school, arts courses are just hobbies and can be applied once they can feed and house themselves.
There’s a good reason why apprenticeships start as soon as you leave school at say 16 17 or 18. Because when they leave university at 21 they think they know it all and virtually impossible to train. Who wants to take orders from someone less qualified that they are.
It’s been my experience from my two grand daughters (and some of their friends) that the only thing that they came away from university with was a boyfriend/husband and none of them are doing jobs that they gained qualifications for…
I don’t blame the kids, they are classed as a failures today if they don’t get enough qualifications to go to the university of their choice, no wonder they exhibit so much stress and suicide…Too much peer pressure on them.
I blame that kretin Blair and the system. Farage will do things different…
I can’t remember whether it was a university lecturer or an A level teacher who told us that the main thing you gain from a university education is an ability to think. Which I would agree with.
Although these days some students are using chatgpt to do their essays so that may explain a lot.
I can understand why employers don’t like apprentices these days for the same reason as above. If kids are coming out of school with a poor education and a lack of work ethic they won’t last in an apprenticeship. We had 92 applications for an apprenticeship we ran a few years ago. In the end some of the applications were so poor that we ended up with a graduate apprentice. Some people thought it was ok to submit applications with poor grammar and spelling mistakes for a job that stated attention to detail as a required attribute. The apprenticeship scheme was so labour intensive on both us and the applicants that the person we recruited quit after a year and a half citing the pressure of the scheme as a reason. I refused to entertain doing it again.
