[Magdalen] Gap year (or more)

[Jim Guthrie]

> It's a vanity thing for too many.  Go to college whether it agrees with you
> or not. And that is nuts.

Not in a world that's flat.

And are you familiar with the kinds of things a modern electrician has to deal 
with? All manner of IC Circuits for example. The job has changed during the past 
20 years or so, at least in the United States.

Plumbers? In much of the U.S. one might need an advance degree just to decipher 
modern plumbing codes <g>  It's not just fixing a leak in a pipe anymore..

There aren't enough of these jobs going forward that will provide much of a life 
(or income) for those who refuse to advance their education. And if there are 
too many who eschew education the basic laws of economics  will drive down wages 
and make them all members of the "Working Poor."

I, for one, am not in favor of that. I am not in favor of the idea that "the 
poor will always be with you" as a command, not something to try to overcome as 
much as possible.

Cheers,
Jim