to put it Miley thank you very much Mike Emanuel on that to another Mike you know this fellow very well uh Mike Row Mike Row Works Foundation founder you know Mike puts his money where his mouth is and and looks at trade schools and opportunities that are just common sense abroad but not in this in this country Mike we've talked about it before right electricians and plumbers and welders all that uh those are highly valued coveted and well recognized fields in countries like Germany and Italy an
d much of Europe the Asia not so much here you're leading an effort to change that how's it going well thanks to you pretty good uh I personally want to thank you Neil for covering this story it's it poses a lot of inconvenient truths for people in our education system and uh many of our elected officials but the evidence is now undeniable it demands verdict that article in the Wall Street Journal that Emanuel was just talking about it's a big deal I've been beating this drum for 16 years now an
d a little premature for a Victory lap maybe but the DAT is in and gen Z is just not having any of it the cost of college I mean you're a finance guy so let me just uh oversell it for a minute nothing in the history of Western Civilization has ever become more expensive more quickly than a four-year degree not food not Health not energy not real estate nothing it is unexampled and yet even as the skills Gap has widened even as 10 million positions have just yawned open in this in this Chasm posi
tions that don't require four-year degree but rather training we have still been telling a whole generation of kids that the best path for the most people is the most expensive path uh they're just not buying it anymore you know I wonder why that is what got it to change obviously the sticker shock a colle is that that'll do it for a lot of people and then a lot of people come to discover boy I have a devil of a Time booking an electrician or a plumber and there must be a reason for that uh what
's doing it well it's math every year for the past 15 years for every five Tradesmen who retire to replace them now right you don't have to be a genius to just add that up and realize the exponential weight of that just gets heavier and heavier I challenge anyone watching this right now to find a construction project going on in their neighborhood go talk to the general contractor he's over budget and he's under time he's he's not going to come in on time and and the reason is always the same it
's a POS of skilled labor so jenz gets it and your first question was right on point they get it in South Korea they get it in Switzerland they get it in Germany they put all the options on the table right in front of a 14 15 year-old kid they don't take shop class out of high school they put it there and they walk them through it and they say look this is a path it looks a lot like work but over here the stigmas and the stereotypes and the myths and the misperceptions that keep kids from even e
xploring these these trades and the number of guidance counselors Neil who are affirmatively bonused on their ability to get kids onto the college track and not the vocational track people say Mike how could College get so expensive the answer is how could it not we freed up a bottomless pile of free money and turned the screws on a whole generation of kids and told them they'd be finished if they didn't take this path so that's starting to get very very wobbly and I think this year you're going
to see a PR problem in higher ed unlike anything we've seen In Our Lifetime well you've been on it long before a lot of people what I love about you Mike I'm not blowing you smoke you you don't forget your roots you don't forget where you come from and you don't forget just average working folk and knowing that they're they're not only the lifeblood of our country but a very profitable lifeblood for their kids and their offspring so uh thank you for doing that Mike good seeing you again you too
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