One minor issue; for a lot of constuction/building trades, the apprenticeship programs eliminate the need for much time at community college. Where it would be useful is for the guy who wants to learn the necessary skills for running his own business.
Excellent observation. Parts 2 & 3 will go into more detail. Community college, as it exists now, is more like a prehistoric lifeform, a necessary step more than a model for copying. The trades wing (School of Practice) will be spaces of applied learning; workshops, labs, repair bays, open fields in which to build, blow up, and experiment.
One thing to keep in mind: the whole of this institute hinges on Applicability. Yes, there will be an element of "sandbox" in which to play & learn, but I feel strongly that schooling is a waste of time for many reasons, and a significant one is that most of what is done has no purpose outside of the finite reality of classroom & grades.
CNCC will instruct men, develop the projects & careers of the teachers, and support the region by providing both smart men AND capable technicians.
The one side hosts the practical trades of nursing, book-keeping, early childhood home education, smallhold farming, fabric-crafting and house-holding.
The other provides critical female leadership training for the incurable (and so useful when pointed in the right direction) Managing Women in the ancillary professional roles such as nursing Matrons. We have lost nearly all the institutional memory of wise, capable older women who who manage and direct the younger.
The rare scholars among my sex will have to marry wisely.
One minor issue; for a lot of constuction/building trades, the apprenticeship programs eliminate the need for much time at community college. Where it would be useful is for the guy who wants to learn the necessary skills for running his own business.
Excellent observation. Parts 2 & 3 will go into more detail. Community college, as it exists now, is more like a prehistoric lifeform, a necessary step more than a model for copying. The trades wing (School of Practice) will be spaces of applied learning; workshops, labs, repair bays, open fields in which to build, blow up, and experiment.
One thing to keep in mind: the whole of this institute hinges on Applicability. Yes, there will be an element of "sandbox" in which to play & learn, but I feel strongly that schooling is a waste of time for many reasons, and a significant one is that most of what is done has no purpose outside of the finite reality of classroom & grades.
CNCC will instruct men, develop the projects & careers of the teachers, and support the region by providing both smart men AND capable technicians.
Does that make sense?
The all-female version of this is also vital.
The one side hosts the practical trades of nursing, book-keeping, early childhood home education, smallhold farming, fabric-crafting and house-holding.
The other provides critical female leadership training for the incurable (and so useful when pointed in the right direction) Managing Women in the ancillary professional roles such as nursing Matrons. We have lost nearly all the institutional memory of wise, capable older women who who manage and direct the younger.
The rare scholars among my sex will have to marry wisely.