More Students Are Turning Away from College and Toward Apprenticeships

Re:More Students Are Turning Away from College and Toward Ap... by FooBarBizBazz on Saturday March 18, 2023 @03:29PM (#35212279)

I hear it used to be that there was a culture of serious working-class learning in England. Like, the barbers in the shop would pay some street-kid to read them books -- there was no TV -- while they cut hair. And the cabbie could get into a conversation about Kant or something with his passenger. Maybe just to mess with them, but still.

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Re:More Students Are Turning Away from College and Toward Ap... by revelio on Saturday March 18, 2023 @06:32PM (#35213823)

The surprisingly intellectual cabbie is practically a trope. They get to talk to a lot of different people so can end up learning all sorts of things you wouldn't expect.

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Re:More Students Are Turning Away from College and Toward Ap... by pclmulqdq on Saturday March 18, 2023 @08:23PM (#35214627)

They also have to be pretty smart and able to study to get past the knowledge, so cabbies in London are often actually pretty intellectual people.

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Re:More Students Are Turning Away from College and Toward Ap... by TorontoTheGood on Sunday March 19, 2023 @01:35PM (#35221455)

In Sweden you have https://www.abf.se/Om-ABF/In-English/

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