Only slightly impressed with the making of magazines that his papa does, he is set on becoming a fireman when he grows up. And he's right. But there will be those who will try to dissuade him, saying that he lacks ambition. Instead of teaching for vocation, it seems that we teach for the making of money these days. If so, we need an education system that values these vocations and not just website designers so that our stevedores, mechanics, and farmers work with excellence and not inferiority.
Education is more than learning a set of skills.
Rethinking Higher Education. Education is learning who to be and how to think. It is learning the ways our society approves of approaching life. It is an apprenticeship in life. The health care that Bill and Melinda Gates fund around the world is fairly rudimentary, focused primarily on immunizations.