[Gllug] VACANCY: Junior Systems Support

[Jason Clifford]

On Mon, 2009-09-07 at 16:42 +0100, Richard Jones wrote:
> Realistically this is a risky proposition.  So you identify that (say)
> lorry drivers are in demand, and start training youngsters to drive a
> lorry.

Yet it's worked fairly well for a very long time - long before the
industrial revolution.

> Trouble is that at age 16+ people have the most plastic of brains, and
> you really want to be giving them general education (the skills to
> learn how to learn).

Very true insofar as people want to pursue that type of learning. There
are also lots of people who simply don't do well with that type of
learning.

Hands on skills learning is no less valid in my view.

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