Pinson, Zachary: Paglia

The current college education concentrates too highly on the business aspects of today’s workforce. Paglia expresses her concerns over this issue in her article. She explains that a resolution for our economy’s recession is for modern education to focus on teaching students in an apprentice-master type setting again. In the old days when people chose their trade they went and learned from a master so that they would be fully prepared to do their job. Nowadays people sit in a classroom listening to a professor teach them everything they need to know to be a professor. They aren’t taught all the hands-on skills required to do the tasks that will be expected of them. They are taught the basics and the theory behind the job and sent into the world to be outdone by those who have learned by working alongside the men and women who have been doing these jobs all their lives, rather than learning from books and professors for four to seven years after high school. If the schools would not only teach their students the math, science, English, and critical thinking aspects of a job but also have them work with their hands to learn the physical aspect of the job, graduates would be more qualified and also more likely to get a job in our shrinking economy.