http://fixitnow.com/wp/2007/01/20/where-have-all-the-tradesmen-gone/ Your appliance repair weapon of mass instruction for all your appliance repair needs! Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:09:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://fixitnow.com/wp/2007/01/20/where-have-all-the-tradesmen-gone/comment-page-1/#comment-3383 Mrs. Samurai Sun, 21 Jan 2007 01:07:46 +0000 http://fixitnow.com/wp/2007/01/20/where-have-all-the-tradesmen-gone/#comment-3383 I agree with all of this, but would also like to point out that education doesn’t have to end just because one doesn’t go to college. In our past, many men and women would finish whatever formal schooling they had and begin farming, keeping house, etc., but would continue to educate themselves through reading, attending meetings or lectures, etc. Now it seems that most people think that education happens only within the halls of our schools, and that once you are out in the “real world”, you do your job during the day and then hang out at night watching TV. I wish it was a more common expectation that regardless of a person’s profession, they would continue to educate themselves not with any specific job-related goal in mind, but just for the personal benefits and enjoyment. I agree with all of this, but would also like to point out that education doesn’t have to end just because one doesn’t go to college. In our past, many men and women would finish whatever formal schooling they had and begin farming, keeping house, etc., but would continue to educate themselves through reading, attending meetings or lectures, etc. Now it seems that most people think that education happens only within the halls of our schools, and that once you are out in the “real world”, you do your job during the day and then hang out at night watching TV. I wish it was a more common expectation that regardless of a person’s profession, they would continue to educate themselves not with any specific job-related goal in mind, but just for the personal benefits and enjoyment.

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