Education, particularly a kind of education that provides vocational and technical skills, will provide the engineers, teachers, and burger flippers with the drive and capability to create the value-added that separates Silicon Valley from Lincoln, Nebraska. The key to that distinctive twist is technology, or more precisely a worldview in which technological metaphors predominate. . . This assumption is rarely questioned in the EFR visions of tomorrow land. In the best future, technology would relieve overcrowded schools, erase cultural differences in the classroom and even remove the managerial class from the necessity of experiencing other cultures by replacing disorienting and time-consuming travel with orderly telecommunications. Technology would bond fragmented families using polymers of pagers.
Technology defines value-added performance.
It's not the mop and broom anymore, of course, and it's not just the simple buffer. This is equipment that is really, really specialized, that also can be computerized, and we're looking at hopefully writing some grants because we are non-profit, to make that equipment accessible to those custodial students. So it's not, you know, a simple class anymore. You're talking about chemical usage and the mixing of chemicals and knowing exactly what each of those chemical are. And I think you're going to see, because of consumer awareness and environmental protection, you're going to see changes in the future in terms of cleaning solvents and solutions and that we also want to prepare student for as well.